Asher Robbins

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Asher Robbins

| image name = RI Senator Asher Robbins.jpg

| caption = Official portrait in the RI State House

| jr/sr1 = United States Senator

| state1 = Rhode Island

| party = Federalist
National Republican
Whig

| term1 = October 31, 1825 – March 3, 1839

| preceded1 = James De Wolf

| succeeded1 = Nathan F. Dixon

| office2 = Member of the Rhode Island General Assembly

| term2 = 1840–1841

| term3 = 1818–1825

| birth_date = {{birth date|1761|10|26}}

| birth_place = Wethersfield, Connecticut

| death_date = {{death date and age|1845|2|25|1761|10|26}}

| death_place = Newport, Rhode Island

| spouse =

| profession = Politician, Lawyer

| alma_mater = Yale College

| resting_place = Common Burial Ground

}}

Asher Robbins (also known as Ashur Robbins; October 26, 1761{{spaced ndash}}February 25, 1845) was a United States senator from Rhode Island.

Early life

Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut on October 26, 1761, he graduated from Yale College in 1782, was a tutor at Rhode Island College (now Brown University) from 1782 to 1790, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1792 and began practice in Providence, Rhode Island.

Politics

He moved to Newport in 1795, was a Federalist candidate for Rhode Island's at-large congressional district in 1800,{{Cite web |title=A New Nation Votes |url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/dn39x308r |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=elections.lib.tufts.edu}} was appointed United States district attorney in 1812, and was a member of the Rhode Island Assembly from 1818 to 1825.

Robbins was elected as Adams (later Anti-Jacksonian and then Whig) to the U.S. Senate in 1825 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James De Wolf; he was reelected in 1827 and 1833 and served from October 31, 1825, to March 3, 1839. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-second Congress).

Later life

After his time in the Senate, Robbins was again a member of the State assembly (1840–1841) and was postmaster of Newport from 1841 until his death in that city in 1845; interment was in the Common Burial Ground. His daughter was the poet Sophia Louise Little.{{Cite book |title=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography |publisher=D. Appleton & Co |year=1888 |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=J. G. |volume=3 |location=New York |pages=738 |chapter=Little, Sophia Louise |editor-last2=Fiske |editor-first2=J. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclop03wils/page/738/mode/2up}}

References

External links

[https://books.google.com/books?id=gygaQ4BdGGoC& A Statement of Some Leading Principles and Measures Adopted by General Jackson written by Robbins and others]
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{{U.S. Senator box

| state= Rhode Island

| class=1

| alongside=Nehemiah R. Knight

| before=James De Wolf

| after=Nathan F. Dixon

| years=October 31, 1825 – March 3, 1839

}}

{{succession box

| title=Oldest living U.S. senator

| before=Nathaniel Chipman

| after=William Plumer