Ashington
Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is 15 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck.
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Ronald J. Shurer
Fighter
Edward Everett Eslick
Former United States Representative
Charles Edward Magoon
Former United States Minister to Panama
Philip King
Musician
Robert Simpson Woodward
American civil engineer
Anna Murray Douglass
Frederick Douglass' wife
John Magruder
United States Army officer, born 1887
Isaac C. Bates
Former Massachusetts State Representative
John Williams Shackelford
Former United States Representative
John F. R. Seitz
Military personnel
Mary Henderson Eastman
American historian
Louis E. Woods
General
Thomas Tipton
Former member of the United States Senate
Frederick Douglass, Jr.
Essayist ‧ Frederick Douglass' son
Raymond Albert Wheeler
General
John Sirica
Former Judge
John E. Hull
Herman Hollerith
German-American statistician
Champ Clark
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Peter Parker
American physician
William Hinson Cole
American Politician
Paul Pascal
French painter
Ben Hebard Fuller
General
Seth Shepard
Justice
Herbert Covington Bonner
Former United States Representative
William E. Mason
Former U.S. senator
J. Melville Broughton
Former Governor of North Carolina
Herbert Stein
American economist
Edward Fulton Denison
American economist
Daniel A. Reed
Former United States Representative
Michael Mussa
American economist
Patricia Roberts Harris
Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President
Julius Erasmus Hilgard
German-American engineer ‧ Theodore Erasmus Hilgard's son
Henri Chrétien
French astronomer
William E. Birkhimer
Lawyer
Diane Sommerfield
American actress
Abner Taylor
Former Illinois State Representative
James M. Quigley
Former United States Representative
Josiah Meigs
American author
James M. Edmunds
Politician
William Helmick
American Politician
Joseph Metcalf III
Admiral
Jacob Brown
American general
Wiffy Cox
American professional golfer
Thornton A. Jenkins
Military officer
Benjamin F. Sands
Military officer