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An abolitionist lawyer and editor from Toledo, Ohio, Ashley was elected to Congress in 1858. He introduced in 1863 the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. (Thomas A. McMullin and David Waler. Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors. Westport, Conn., 1984.)