Asa O. Aldis

Asa Owen Aldis (September 2, 1811 – June 24, 1891) was a Vermont attorney, judge and diplomat.

[1] His sister Miranda was the wife of Vermont Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kellogg.

[1] A Republican, In 1857 he was elected a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and he continued to serve until resigning in 1865.

[1] Aldis served as Consul in Nice until 1871, when he returned to the U.S. to accept appointment as a member of the Southern Claims Commission, which reviewed and made recommendations for reimbursement on claims for property seized and damaged by the Union during the American Civil War.

[1] After his first wife's death, in 1841 Aldis married Mary Townsend Taylor (1824-1909), with whom he had six daughters and two sons:[1]