Ambrose S. Murray

Ambrose Spencer Murray (born November 27, 1807 in Wallkill , New York , † November 8, 1885 in Goshen , New York) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman William Murray was his brother.

Career

Ambrose Murray was born and raised in Wallkill about five years before the outbreak of the British-American War . During this time he attended public schools. He worked between 1824 and 1831 as a clerk in a trading post in Middletown . He then moved to Goshen, Orange County , where he worked in a bank. Between 1851 and 1854 he was a chamberlain in Orange County.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress , Murray was elected for the opposition party in the tenth constituency of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded his brother on March 4, 1855. Murray was re-elected once. He retired from the after March 3, 1859 Congress of. In 1857 he joined the Republican Party .

After his time in Congress, he went into banking in Goshen. In 1860 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago . He was also involved in many other business ventures. He died on November 8, 1885 in Goshen and was then buried in St. James' Cemetery .

Web links

• Ambrose S. Murray in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)