succeeded death_date children birth_place party office preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
william richardson davie 3 february 1813 three children beaufort , carteret county north carolina , british colony democratic-republican 9th governor of north carolina richard dobbs spaight , sr. 24 march 1725 november 19 , 1795 -lrb- ; she died -rrb- 1 -rrb- mary porter ashe -lrb- married 1748 samuel ashe -lrb- north carolina -rrb-
 december 7 , 1798 samuel ashe lawyer
samuel ashe -lrb- north carolina -rrb-

samuel ashe -lrb- march 24 , 1725 -- february 3 , 1813 -rrb- was the ninth governor of the u.s. state of north carolina from 1795 to 1798 .
ashe was born in beaufort , north carolina .
his father , john baptista ashe , and brother , john ashe , both served as speaker of the north carolina colonial assembly , or house of burgesses .
ashe became an orphan at the age of nine .
he married mary porter in 1748 ; they had three children , including john baptista ashe , who would serve in the continental congress .
after mary died , ashe remarried , this time to the former elizabeth merrik .
ashe studied law and was named assistant attorney for the crown in the wilmington district of the colony .
he became involved in the revolutionary movement and served in the north carolina provincial congress and as a member of the north carolina militia .
for a little more than one month in 1776 , ashe served as president of the council of safety , the state 's executive authority .
he was also appointed to the committee that drafted the first north carolina constitution .
in 1776 , he was elected to the new north carolina senate and was elected its first speaker .
the following year , ashe was appointed presiding judge of the state superior court , a post which he held until 1795 .
in 1795 , the general assembly elected him governor at the age of 70 .
he served three one-year terms , the maximum constitutional limit , before retiring in 1798 .
ashe continued to remain active in politics after his term as governor , serving as a member of the united states electoral college in 1804 , when his fellow democrat-republican , thomas jefferson , was reelected over federalist charles c. pinckney .
ashe county and the cities of asheville and asheboro are named in his honor .
ashe 's grandson , william ashe , was a confederate soldier in the american civil war , and a son of john b. and the former eliza hay .
he was killed at shiloh in tennessee in 1862 , a battle in which william 's brother , samuel swann ashe , also fought .
the gov. samuel ashe grave near rocky point , north carolina was listed on the national register of historic places in 2001 .
