Michael Woolston Ash

Michael Woolston Ash (March 5, 1789 – December 14, 1858) was an American politician who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1835 to 1837.

He served as a first lieutenant and regimental adjutant in the First Pennsylvania Militia Volunteers during the War of 1812.

At the close of the war he went into partnership with James Buchanan, who became the 15th President of the United States, and continued the practice of his profession in Philadelphia.

He was interred at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[2] and re-interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

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