Henry S. Ambler (1836 – September 17, 1905) was an American politician from

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He was born in 1836 in

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, the son of John Ambler. He worked on the family farm. He was Agent and Steward of the New York Institution for the Blind at

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from 1861 to 1866. Then he became a merchant, and later returned to the family farm. He was Supervisor of the Town of Austerlitz for ten years. In 1896, he was appointed as Assistant State Commissioner of Agriculture. Ambler was a member of the

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(24th D.) from 1899 until his death in 1905, sitting in the 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th and

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s. He died on September 17, 1905, at the Ambler family farm in

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, Columbia County, New York, from an ailment of the digestive organs;''SENATOR AMBLER DEAD''
in the ''

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'' on September 18, 1905 and was buried at the Spencertown Cemetery there.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ambler, Henry S. 1836 births 1905 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators People from Columbia County, New York Politicians from New York City Town supervisors in New York (state) 19th-century American legislators