Born in
Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Peaslee attended
Gilmanton Academy and was graduated from
Dartmouth College,
Hanover, in 1824. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1828, commencing practice in
Concord. He served as member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1833–1837, and as
Adjutant General of the
New Hampshire Militia, 1839–1847. Peaslee was elected as a
Democrat to the
Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, and
Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853). He served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852. He served as collector of the
port of Boston by appointment of President
Franklin Pierce, 1853–1857. He moved to
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1860. He died while on a visit to
Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 18, 1866. He was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Portsmouth. ==References==