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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Josiah J. Evans
Former United States Senator
Benjamin F. Shively
Former member of the United States Senate
William Francis Stevenson
Former Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Elmer O. Leatherwood
U.S. representative
Michael Boorda
Admiral
George N. Seger
Former United States Representative
Lee E. Geyer
Former United States Representative
Charles Sutherland
American doctor
Charles H. Crane
American physician
Robert Maitland O'Reilly
Leonard D. Heaton
Surgeon
Lewis Powell
Soldier
William H. H. Morris Jr.
Joseph M. McCormick
Former member of the United States Senate
Eben Swift
General
John R. McCarl
Former Comptroller General of the United States
Louis Bauman
Writer
Pablita Abeyta
American Sculptor
Oliveira Lima
Brazilian writer
Rudolf Dreszer
General
George Ferdinand Becker
American geologist
George D. Ruggles
General
Freda Utley
Political activist
Ralph E. Church
Former United States Representative
Louis Winslow Austin
American physicist
John S. Mason
General
Nicholas Young
American executive
Nathan F. Dixon I
Former member of the United States Senate
Francis Malbone
Former member of the United States Senate
Medill McCormick
Former United States Senator
James E. Proctor Jr.
Former Maryland State Delegate
Athelstan Spilhaus
Hugh Seton-Watson
British historian
Courtney Whitney
Lawyer
William Ewart Napier
American chess master
John H. Hoover
Commanding officer
Samuel Joelah Tribble
Former United States Representative
George Vasey
American botanist
Benjamin V. Cohen
Lawyer
Theodore Achilles
Former United States Ambassador to Peru
John Pasta
American computer scientist
Mark S. Brewer
Politician
John Morrison Oliver
General
Willard G. Wyman
Thomas Joseph Shahan
Author
Nathan Smith
Football player
Alfred Adams Wheat
Former Associate justice