Asahel Huntington

Asahel Huntington
Clerk of Courts
Essex County, Massachusetts[1]
In office
1851  September 5, 1870
8th Mayor of
Salem, Massachusetts
In office
March 1853  March 1854
Preceded by Charles Wentworth Upham
Succeeded by Joseph Andrews
Member of the
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853
District Attorney for the District of
Essex and Middlesex Counties[1]
In office
1830–1845
Preceded by New office
District Attorney
Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office
1830–1845
County Attorney
Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office
1830–1845
County Attorney
Essex County, Massachusetts[2]
In office
1830–1845
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives[1][2]
In office
1827[2]  1827[2]
Member of the
Salem, Massachusetts
School Board[2]
In office
1827[2]  1827[2]
In office
1830[2]  1832[2]
In office
1840[2]  1842[2]
In office
1846[2]  1847[2]
In office
1857[2]  1858[2]
Personal details
Born July 28, 1798[3]
Topsfield, Massachusetts[3]
Died September 5, 1870[1]
Spouse(s) Caroline Louisa (De Blois) Tucker,[1] m. August 1842.[4]
Children William De Blois Huntington; Sarah Louisa Huntington; Arthur Lord Huntington[4]
Alma mater Phillips Academy,[2] class of 1815.
Yale College, class of 1819.[2]
Profession [5]

Asahel Huntington (July 28, 1798 – September 5, 1870) was an American politician who served as a Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts.[5]

Huntington was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts on July 23, 1798. His father was the Rev. Asahel Huntington, and his mother was Alethea, daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord, of Pomfret, Connecticut. Huntington was the brother of Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Elisha Huntington.[6]

Huntington graduated from Yale College in 1819. After leaving College, Huntington commenced his legal studies at Newburyport, and after some interruptions completed them at Salem, Mass., where he was admitted to the bar in 1824. He continued in practice in Salem until 1851, when he was appointed clerk of all the courts in Essex County; this office he held till his death. He served the State repeatedly in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the same year was mayor of the city of Salem. He died in Salem, Mass., after a brief illness, 5 Sept., 1870.

He was married, 15 Aug,1842, to Mrs Caroline (Deblois) Tucker, of Boston, who survived him, with a son and daughter.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

Political offices
Preceded by
Charles Wentworth Upham
Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts
1853–1854
Succeeded by
Joseph Andrews

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Essex Institute (July and October, 1878), Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume XV, July and October, 1878. Nos 3, 4, Salem, Ma.: The Essex Institute, p. 296 Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Arrington, Benjamin F. (1922), Municipal history of Essex County in Massachusetts Volume III, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company., p. 149.
  3. 1 2 Essex Institute (July and October, 1878), Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume XV, July and October, 1878. Nos 3, 4, Salem, Ma.: The Essex Institute, p. 295 Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. 1 2 Arrington, Benjamin F. (1922), Municipal history of Essex County in Massachusetts Volume III, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company., p. 150.
  5. 1 2 Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume I, Issue 1, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 226.
  6. Reno, Conrad (1901), Memoirs of the Judiciary and The Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century, Volume III, Boston, MA: The Century Memorial Publishing Company, p. 489.
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