Asa Fitch (November 10, 1765August 24, 1843) was a U.S. representative from New York from 1811 to 1813. He was born in Groton in the Connecticut Colony. He studied medicine and became a physician practicing in Duanesburg and

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. During the Revolutionary War he served as a sergeant in Captain Livingston's company. He was a justice of the peace from 1799 to 1810, was President of the Washington County Medical Society from 1806 to 1826, and was a County judge from 1810 to 1821. He was elected as a Federalist to the

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, holding office from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1813. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1812 and resumed the practice of medicine. He died in

, on August 24, 1843, and is interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

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