Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Fitch, Asa

Fitch, Asa, a Representative from New York; born in Groton, Conn., November 10, 1765; received a limited schooling; during the Revolutionary War served as a sergeant in Captain Livingston’s company; studied medicine and practiced in Duanesburg and Salem, N.Y.; justice of the peace 1799-1810; president of the Washington County Medical Society 1806-1826; county judge 1810-1821; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1812; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Salem, N.Y., August 24, 1843; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Fitch, Asa," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1160 Original Sources, accessed March 20, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8F4DVHLRDW82T3W.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Fitch, Asa." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1160, Original Sources. 20 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8F4DVHLRDW82T3W.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Fitch, Asa' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1160. Original Sources, retrieved 20 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8F4DVHLRDW82T3W.