American politician

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

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 M*achusetts 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). Ranney supported women’s suffrage. 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 M*achusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp.:500–501.

External links

• Biography portal

• Ambrose Ranney at Find a Grave