Thomas Q. Ashburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American judge (1820-1890)
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1820
Place of Birth: Walnut Hills, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 17-Jan-1890
Profession: judge
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Thomas Q. Ashburn
- Thomas Quin Ashburn (February 9, 1820 – January 17, 1890) was an American judge on the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio from 1876 to 1879, and a member of the Ohio State Senate for twelve days at the end of his life in 1890. Thomas Ashburn was born at East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.
- He was the oldest of seven children of Richard Ashburn and Mary (Williams) Ashburn.
- The family soon moved to New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, where Thomas grew up.Ashburn entered Miami University in 1838, and stayed for about eighteen months.
- He then taught school in New Richmond for two winters and spent his summers at farm labor.
- In 1841 he entered Jefferson College at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he stayed through half his junior year.
- He then taught school again in Clermont County, and studied law at the Batavia, Ohio office of Shields & Howard, attorneys at that place.Ashburn practiced law at New Richmond until 1846, when he removed to Batavia.
- He was prosecuting attorney of Clermont County from 1848 to 1852.
- In 1855, he ran for the Ohio Legislature, but was defeated.
- From 1861 to 1876, he was judge of Common Pleas for Adams, Brown and Clermont Counties.
- He ran for the Ohio Supreme Court in 1875, but was defeated 296,944 to 292,328 by Republican George W.
- McIlvaine.Ashburn resigned from the Common Pleas Court in 1876, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio for a three year term by Governor Rutherford B.
- Hayes.In February, 1879, after the commission was dissolved, Ashburn entered a partnership with George W.
- Hulick of Batavia, which continued until his death.
- In November 1889, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate as a Democrat.
- The session began January 6, 1890, and a dying Ashburn was carried into the chambers to vote for Calvin S.
- Brice for United States Senator on January 14 and 15.
- He died January 17, 1890.Ashburn was married to Sarah W.
- Penn on December 3, 1846.
- She died November 10, 1854, survived by four children.
- He remarried to Mary Ellen Griffith, a first cousin of Ulysses S.
- Grant, on March 27, 1856, and they had two children.
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