. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . f 1844. H is lif e was spent on thehome farm until hewas nineteen yearsof age. His fatherwas the leading phy-sician of his nativeplace, and was fortwo years lieutenant-governor of \fter graduation hestudied law withHon. Andrew Tracy,in Woodstock, Vt.,and was admitted tothe bar in Vermontin 1847. He imme-diately remo\ed toBoston, and was admittetl to the Suffolkbar in June, Ranney wasmarried Dec. 4,1850, to Maria D.,daughter of Addisonand M
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . f 1844. H is lif e was spent on thehome farm until hewas nineteen yearsof age. His fatherwas the leading phy-sician of his nativeplace, and was fortwo years lieutenant-governor of \fter graduation hestudied law withHon. Andrew Tracy,in Woodstock, Vt.,and was admitted tothe bar in Vermontin 1847. He imme-diately remo\ed toBoston, and was admittetl to the Suffolkbar in June, Ranney wasmarried Dec. 4,1850, to Maria D.,daughter of Addisonand Maria (Ingals)Fletcher. Of thisunion were four chil-dren : Fletcher Ran-ney, Maria P., Helen M. and Alice Ranney (now Allen). Mr. Ranney was city solicitor forBoston in 1855 and 1856; member of the House ofRepresentatives in 1857, 1863 and 1864; elected toCongress in iSSo, as a Republican from the third con-gressional district; was twice re-elected, serving throughthe Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth con-gresses. He joined the Republican party at its organi-zation, and has ever since remained an active worker in. AMBROSE A. RANNEY its ranks. He served two terms in Congress on theCommittee on Elections, investigating frauds and ren-dering valuable service in the interest of fair electionsand the integrity of the ballot-box, dealing, as has beenhis wont at the bar, heavy blows in his condemnation offrauds and infringements of the rights of the last term he was a member of the JudiciaryCommittee, and was appointed at the head of a specialcommittee on the Republican side of the House to investigate the fa-mous Pan-Electricscheme, invohingthe reputation andconduct of high gov-ernmental o ffi c i a 1 sand exciting greatpublic interest. Hisservices on this com-mittee are a matterof honorable absorbing aimand ambition was,however, in the pro-fession of the this, before entering Congress, he hadachieved eminentsuccess. He hadbeen on
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