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Samuel Ashe (March 24, 1725 – February 3, 1813) was the ninth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He was also one of the first three judges of the North Carolina Superior Court in 1787.
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1776-1835. Federalist. Governors. Jeffersonians. Political History. The Judge presiding over the landmark case Bayard v. Singleton (1785), Ashe served three one-year terms as Governor and was an ardent Federalist at the beginning of his term. He soon supported state’s rights and Jeffersonian ideals.
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Samuel Ashe (1725-1813), prominent leader for the Patriot cause, was born near Bath to parents of considerable wealth, social status, and political influence. His mother, the former Elizabeth Swann, was the daughter of Samuel Swann, prominent planter and long-time member of the colony’s executive council.
Ashe, Samuel. by Heustis P. Whiteside, 1979; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, April 2023. See also: Ashe, Samuel. 1725–3 Feb. 1813. Samuel Ashe, judge and governor, was born near Bath, where his father, John Baptista Ashe, was speaker in the assembly, representing the Beaufort Precinct.
He was a member and Speaker of the North Carolina Senate in 1777; and served as the presiding justice of the North Carolina Superior Court from 1777 to 1795. Ashe next won election to the governorship in 1795, and went on to win re-election annually until 1797.