R. Porter Ashe
Democratic
Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
11-08-1898 | Democratic | SD-24 | 2425 | Win |
11-06-1900 | Democratic | CD-04 | 11742 | Loss |
Website: | www.findagrave.com/memorial/59776818/richard-porter-ashe |
Candidate Biography:
Richard Porter Ashe
Born: July 4, 1860 in California
Married: Aimee Crocker (m. 1882; div. 1887), Emilie Rathburn
Child: Gladys
Died: December 12, 1927 in San Francisco, CA
- In 1883, Ashe saved former Governor John G. Downey from the wreckage of a train crash at Tehachapi.
- Ashe was the first of five husbands of Amy Crocker. Her fourth and fifth husbands were Russian princes; Prince Alexander Miskinoff and Prince Mstislav Galitzine.