Description
Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848) was New York’s attorney general (1802-1804) and the associate justice of New York’s supreme court (1804-1819). A onetime Federalist firebrand, he famously switched to the Republicans in 1798 and became a close ally of DeWitt Clinton.
Citations
"Ambrose Spencer," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000721