John Durant Ashmore

Democrat Representative of South Carolina's 5th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

August 18, 1819 (52 years old)

Birthday

December 5, 1871

Death

Served as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina during the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Held the position of Comptroller General of South Carolina from 1853 to 1857.
Was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1848 to 1853.
Engaged in agricultural pursuits and owned a plantation, with records of slave ownership not fully documented.
Elected colonel of the Fourth South Carolina Regiment during the Civil War but resigned before service began.
Resigned from Congress in December 1860 due to South Carolina’s attempted secession from the United States.
Died in Sardis, Mississippi, and was buried in Black Jack Cemetery.