Asa Fitch (Representative)
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Asa Fitch (November 10, 1765 – August 24, 1843) was a U.S. representative from New York from 1811 to 1813.
He was born in Groton, Connecticut. He studied medicine and became a physician practicing in Duanesburg and Salem, New York.
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 Twelfth United States Congress, 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 Salem, New York on August 24, 1843 and is interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
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American politician |
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November 10, 1765 |
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August 24, 1843 |
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