Ambrose Spencer (December 13]], 1765 - March 13, 1848) was a United States Representative and New York State Attorney General. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, he attended Yale College and graduated from Harvard University in 1783. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Hudson, where he was city clerk from 1786 to 1793. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1793 to 1795 and served in the New York State Senate from 1795 to 1804. He was assistant attorney general in 1796, and attorney general of New York from 1802 to 1804. 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... See also Attorney General. ... Salisbury is a town located in Litchfield County, Connecticut. ... For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... A bar association is a body of lawyers who, in some jurisdictions, are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession. ... Hudson is a city located in Columbia County, New York. ... In the United States, a city clerk as an elected or appointed official who is charged with the responsibility of being the official keeper of the municipal records. ... The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York Legislature body of the state of New York. ... The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. ...

From 1804 to 1819, he was a justice of the State supreme court; from 1819 to 1823, he was chief justice. He resumed the practice of law in Albany, and was elected to the Twenty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1831; during that Congress, he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture. New York County Supreme Court building at 60 Centre Street, from across Foley Square The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the basic New York State trial court of general jurisidiction. ... Albany redirects here. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... Leopold I 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Spencer was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, and was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, United States judge for the district of Missouri. He was mayor of Albany from 1824 to 1826, and moved to Lyons in 1839 and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was president of the Whig National Convention at Baltimore in 1844; in 1848 he died in Lyons; interment was in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York. James H. Peck (12 January 1790 - 29 April 1836) served as a Judge on the Missouri Federal District Court. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Menands is a village located in Albany County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 3,910. ...

John Canfield Spencer, Ambrose's son, was also a U.S. Representative from New York. John Canfield Spencer (January 8, 1788–May 18, 1855) was an American politician who was Secretary of War from 1841 to 1843 and Secretary of the Treasury from 1843 to 1844 under President John Tyler. ...

References

• Ambrose Spencer's biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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