Asa Fitch (politician)

Asa Fitch
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1811 – March 4, 1813
Preceded byHerman Knickerbocker
Succeeded byJonathan Fisk
Personal details
Born(1765-11-10)November 10, 1765
Groton, Connecticut Colony, British America
DiedAugust 24, 1843(1843-08-24) (aged 77)
Salem, New York, U.S.

Asa Fitch (November 10, 1765 – August 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.