Amasa Converse (August 21, 1795 – December 9, 1872) was an American Presbyterian minister and senior editor of the Christian Observer.

[3] He attended Phillips Academy and Dartmouth College before entering Princeton Theological Seminary.

[6] "Late on the evening of May 16, Mr. Cleland, with Mrs. Clemm, Poe and Virginia, left Mrs. Yarrington's, and, walking quietly up Main street to the corner of Seventh, were married in Mr. Converse's own parlor.

[9] Converse's Southern sympathies and such disagreements over the Civil War brought the publication office South to Richmond, and later it was in Louisville.

[11] Converse said the South had been guilty of idleness and intemperance, had been a proud and ungrateful people, and that these sins were partially responsible for the war.