John Baptista Ashe (1748-27 November 1802) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, hailing from North Carolina. He was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 1) from 1790 to 1791, preceding John Steele, and from NC 3 from 1791 to 1793, succeeding Timothy Bloodworth and preceding Joseph Winston.
Biography[]
John Baptista Ashe was born in 1748 in Rocky Point, Pendler County, North Carolina. Ashe was the son of future governor Samuel Ashe, and he served in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Ashe rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and he served under George Washington at Valley Forge and then under General Nathanael Greene at the 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs. In 1787, Ashe was elected to the Confederation Congress, and he ratified the US Constitution in his home state of North Carolina. From 1790 to 1793, he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party in the US Congress, and he died in 1802 before he could take office as Governor of North Carolina.