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Thomas William Ludlow Ashley (S&B 1948)

Democratic. Yale University. Skull and Bones. University of Toledo. Ohio State University College of Law.

Close friend of George H. W. Bush (S&B 1948) and Barbara Bush.

Ashley was a member of the George H. W. Bush (S&B 1948) Presidential Library Foundation and served on many corporate boards including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage lenders in the United States.[3,3]

1990, he went to Camp David to buck up the President [GHWB S&B 1948] after his budget was spurned by Congress, leading to a temporary shutdown of the federal government.[3,3]

Mr. Ashley also became a senior and influential member of three permanent House committees: budget; banking, finance, and urban affairs; and merchant marine and fisheries, serving briefly in 1980 as chairman of the latter panel.[3,3]

Oct 1979, President Carter [Gridiron/Trilateral Commission], at a White House ceremony marking the anniversary of a community development program, praised Mr. Ashley’s legislative abilities.[3,3]

1977, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (House Speaker) named Mr. Ashley chairman of a special committee created to handle a package of bills submitted by President Jimmy Carter to deal with the energy crisis.When energy legislation cleared Congress more than a year later, Mr. O’Neill sent Mr. Ashley a letter of praise.”Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, but they didn’t know that Tip O’Neill had a friend who had knowledge, ability, toughness, and a never-say-die attitude, and who, when he was put on the first team, could run with the ball,” the House Speaker wrote.[3,3]

1961, he was one of only six congressmen who voted to cut off funds for the House Un-American Activities Committee.[3,3]

1959, more than a decade before President Richard Nixon’s(Bohemian) landmark visit to the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Ashley was one of two House members to openly support that nation’s admission to the United Nations.[3,3]

3 Jan 1955 to 3 Jan 1981 - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio’s 9th district.

Preceded by Frazier Reams. Succeeded by Ed Weber

WW2 - Pacific Theater of Operations - United States Army

1948 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - FYI - Wiki - Thomas L. Ashley S&B 1948s

[3,3] - Thomas L. Ashley S&B 1948 - Obituary

[4] - Chief Is Ousted at Fannie Mae Under Pressure By Stephen Labaton, Dec. 22, 2004 - references Franklin D. Raines Rhodes 1971