Ambrose Spencer

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Ambrose Spencer

Ambrose Spencer (born December 13, 1765 in Salisbury , Colony of Connecticut , † March 13, 1844 in Lyons , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1829 and 1831 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ambrose Spencer was born in Salisbury, Litchfield County , and grew up during the British colonial era. He attended Yale College and graduated from Harvard University in 1783 . Spencer was studying law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Hudson , Columbia County . Between 1786 and 1793 he was town clerk ( city clerk ). Then he sat in the New York State Assembly in 1794 and in the New York Senate between 1796 and 1802 . In 1796 he worked as Assistant Attorney General . Between 1802 and 1804 he held the post of Attorney General of New York. He was then a judge at the New York Supreme Court between 1804 and 1819 and Chief Justice there between 1819 and 1823 . Then he took up his practice as a lawyer in Albany . He was mayor there between 1824 and 1826 . Between 1828 and 1829 he was President of the Phi Beta Kappa . Politically, he belonged to the anti-Jacksonian faction .

In the 1828 congressional elections for the 21st Congress , Spencer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Stephen Van Rensselaer on March 4, 1829 . In 1830 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1831 . As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Agriculture . In addition, he was named by the US House of Representatives in 1830 as one of the leaders who led an impeachment against James H. Peck , federal judge for the Missouri district .

In 1839 he moved to Lyons, where he worked in agriculture. He was President of the Whig National Convention in Baltimore in 1844 . He died on March 13, 1848 in Lyons and was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands .

Honors

Harvard University awarded him the doctorate ( Doctor of Laws ) in 1821 . On August 5, 1823, he was awarded the same doctorate from Columbia College.

family

Ambrose Spencer was married three times. His first marriage was with Laura Canfield (1768-1807). After her death he married Mary Clinton (1773-1808), sister of Governor DeWitt Clinton . His last marriage was with her sister Katherine Clinton (1778-1837). Congressman John Canfield Spencer was his son. He was both Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury under President John Tyler . His grandson Philip Spencer was executed in 1842 for causing a mutiny on the brig USS Somers . Congressman James B. Spencer was a distant cousin of his.

literature

Web links

  • Ambrose Spencer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "CATALOG OF THE NEW YORK ALPHA OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA" , 1852, p. 5.
  2. ^ "The Quarterly Christian Spectator" , Volume 3, S. Cooke, 1821, pp. 490f.
  3. ^ "The Christian Journal, and Literary Register" , Volume 7, T. & J. Swords, 1823, pp. 285f.
  4. ^ Jacob Bailey Moore, "Collections, topographical, historical, and biographical relating principally to New Hampshire," Volume 2, Hill and Moore, 1823, p. 85.
  5. ^ Clinton ancestry on the InterMedia Enterprises website
  6. ^ Clinton ancestry on rootsweb's website
personal data
SURNAME Spencer, Ambrose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1844
Place of death Lyons , New York