Rep. William Ashe
Former Representative for North Carolina’s 3rd District
Ashe was the representative for North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1853 to 1855.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; and the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1849 to Mar 1855, Ashe missed 589 of 1,634 roll call votes, which is 36.0%. This is worse than the median of 31.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1855. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
