Packer made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 1868.
House of Representatives beginning in 1853.
He served two terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. In 1843–1844, he was county judge of Carbon County under Governor David R. In 1842–1843, he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Packer also took an active part in politics. Among his clerks and associates during this period was future businessman and soldier George Washington Helme. He built railways connecting the main line with coal mines in Luzerne and Schuylkill counties, and he planned and built the extension of the line into the Susquehanna Valley and thence into New York state to connect at Waverly with the Erie Railroad. Construction commenced on the Mauch Chunk-Easton line just as Packer's five year charter was to expire. In 1851, he became the major stockholder of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill & Susquehanna Railroad Company, which became the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company in January 1853, and they built a railway line from Mauch Chunk to Easton between November 1852 and September 1855. Packer urged the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to adopt a steam railway as a coal carrier, but the project was not then considered feasible. Packer which built canal-boats and locks for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. In 1833, Packer settled at Mauch Chunk in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where he became the owner of a canal boat carrying coal to Philadelphia. Yates writes of his early life: "Asa and Sarah settled on a farm, and in the winter he went to Tunkhannock on the Susquehanna and used his skill in carpentry to build and repair canal boats." This continued for 11 years. He also worked seasonally as a carpenter in New York City and later in Springville Township, to the south of Brooklyn Township, and he met his wife Sarah Minerva Blakslee there. He moved to Pennsylvania where he became a carpenter's apprentice to his cousin Edward Packer at Brooklyn Township, Pennsylvania, which is located on the Pennsylvania-New York border. Packer was born in Mystic, Connecticut in 1805. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives (1853–1857). He was a conservative and religious man who reflected the image of the typical Connecticut Yankee. Asa Packer (Decem– May 17, 1879) was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction, was active in Pennsylvania politics, and founded Lehigh University.
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