Ambrose Ranney

Ambrose Arnold Ranney
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd district
In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887
Preceded by	Walbridge A. Field
Succeeded by	Leopold Morse
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1857 1863-1864
Personal details
Born	April 17, 1821 Townshend, Vermont
Died	March 5, 1899 (aged 77) Boston, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Dartmouth College
Profession	Lawyer

Ambrose Arnold Ranney (April 17, 1821 – March 5, 1899) was a Representative from Massachusetts.

Ranney was born in Townshend, Vermont. He graduated from Dartmouth College and studied law in Woodstock, Vermont in 1844. In 1848, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Boston.

Ranney was in the corporation counsel for the city from 1855 to 1857. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1857, 1863, and 1864 and served as a Republican in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (1881–1887). He failed reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. He then resumed the practice of law until his death.

References

• United States Congress. "Ambrose Ranney (id: R000058)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 500–501.

External links

• Ambrose Ranney at Find a Grave