Asa Fitch (politician) explained

Asa Fitch
State:New York
District:3rd
Term Start:March 4, 1811
Term End:March 4, 1813
Preceded:Herman Knickerbocker
Succeeded:Jonathan Fisk
Birth Date:10 November 1765
Birth Place:Groton, Connecticut Colony, British America
Death Place:Salem, New York, U.S.

Asa Fitch (November 10, 1765August 24, 1843) was a U.S. representative from New York from 1811 to 1813.

He was born in Groton in the Connecticut Colony. He studied medicine and became a physician practicing in Duanesburg and Salem, New York.

During the Revolutionary War he served as a sergeant in Captain Livingston's company. He was a justice of the peace from 1799 to 1810, was President of the Washington County Medical Society from 1806 to 1826, and was a County judge from 1810 to 1821.

He was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1813. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1812 and resumed the practice of medicine.

He died in Salem, New York, on August 24, 1843, and is interred in Evergreen Cemetery.