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ASHLEY, James Monroe, congressman, born near Pittsburghhh, Pennsylvania, 14 November 1824. His education was acquired while a clerk on boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Later he worked in printing-offices, and became editor of the "Dispatch," and afterward of the "Democrat," at Portsmouth, Ohio. Ha then studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1849, but never practiced. Subsequently he settled in Toledo, where he became interested in the wholesale drug business. He was elected to congress as a republican in 1859, and was reelected four times, serving continuously from 5 December 1859, till 8 March 1869. He was for four terms chairman of the committee on territories, and it was under his supervision that the territories of Arizona, Idaho, and Montana were organized. He was nominated for the 41st congress, but was defeated, and in 1869 was appointed governor of Montana. In 1866 he was a delegate to the loyalist convention held in Philadelphia.
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