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William Albert Ashbrook (July 1, 1867 – January 1, 1940) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and Democratic politician from
Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
. He was born near Johnstown,
Licking County, Ohio Licking County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. At the 2020 census, the population was 178,519. Its county seat is Newark. The county was formed on January 30, 1808, from portions of Fairfield County. It ...
, and attended the local public schools. Later, he studied business in
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, Michigan. In 1884 he founded a newspaper, ''The Johnstown Independent''. He also engaged in banking. From 1893 to 1897 he served as postmaster of Johnstown. He entered politics as a Democrat and won a seat to the
Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...
in 1904. In 1906 he was elected to the
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, where he served until he was defeated in the 1920 elections. Returning home, he resumed his newspaper publishing and banking career in Johnstown. He married Marie Swank and they had a son, John M. Ashbrook, in 1928. He ran in a successful comeback campaign for Congress in 1934, and served there until his death. His son John would later succeed him in that congressional seat from 1961 to 1982 as a Republican.


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Memorial Services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of William Albert Ashbrook late a Representative from Ohio frontispiece 1941
1867 births 1940 deaths People from Licking County, Ohio Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Members of the United States Assay Commission 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Journalists from Ohio {{Ohio-Representative-stub