Ambrose Ranney

{{short description|American politician (1821–1899)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ambrose Arnold Ranney | image = Ambrose Ranney.png | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = [[Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1881 | term_end1 = March 3, 1887 | preceded1 = [[Walbridge A. Field]] | succeeded1 = [[Leopold Morse]] | office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term2 = 1857<br>1863-1864 | birth_date = {{birth date|1821|4|17}} | birth_place = [[Townshend, Vermont]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1899|3|5|1821|4|17}} | death_place = [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Forest Hills Cemetery]]<br />Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Dartmouth College]] | occupation = | profession = Lawyer | signature = Signature of Ambrose Arnold Ranney (1821–1899).png | website = | footnotes = }} '''Ambrose Arnold Ranney''' (April 17, 1821 – March 5, 1899) was a Representative from [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life== Ambrose Arnold Ranney was born in [[Townshend, Vermont]] on April 17, 1821, a son of [[Waitstill R. Ranney]] and Phebe (Atwood) Ranney.<ref>{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Charles Collard |date=1908 |title=Middletown Upper Houses: A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MHzIbJo2HcC&pg=PA250 |location=New York, NY |publisher=The Grafton Press |pages=250–254 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000058 |title=Biography, Ambrose Ranney |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=2022-10-07}}</ref>

==Career== 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 Party (United States)|Republican]] in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (1881–1887).<ref name="bio"/> Ranney supported women’s suffrage.<ref>United States. Congress. House. [https://lccn.loc.gov/93838362 Woman suffrage : views of the minority.] [Washington : Government Printing Office, 1886?] 3 p.; 23 cm. JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 99, #7</ref> He failed [[United States House elections, 1886|reelection in 1886]] to the Fiftieth Congress. He then resumed the practice of law until his death.<ref name="bio"/>

==Personal life== Ranney died in [[Boston]] on March 5, 1899. Ranney was buried at [[Forest Hills Cemetery]] in Boston.<ref name="bio"/>

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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{CongBio|R000058}} * {{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Rand |editor-first=John C. |editor-link=s:Author:John Clark Rand |date=1890 |title=Ranney, Ambrose A. |title-link=s:One of a Thousand/Ranney, Ambrose A. |encyclopedia=[[s:One of a Thousand|One of a Thousand]]: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. D. 1888–'89 |location=Boston |publisher=First National Publishing Company |pages=500–501}}

{{S-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=3 | before=[[Walbridge A. Field]] | after= [[Leopold Morse]] | years=March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1887 }} {{S-end}}

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