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Michael Woolston Ash was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
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Michael W. Ash was born in Philadelphia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar June 21, 1811, and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He served as a first lieutenant and lieutenant colonel in the First Regular Pennsylvania Volunteers during the
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. At the close of the war he went into partnership with
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, and continued the practice of his profession in Philadelphia.
Ash was elected as a Jacksonian to the
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Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection in
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to the
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Congress. He practiced law until his death in Philadelphia in 1858. Interment in Christ Church Burial Ground, located at Fifth and Arch Streets.
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