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Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)
John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840)
Oil on canvas, circa 1818
New-York Historical Society
Gift of Marshall S. Bidwell
As attorney general of New York, Spencer in 1804 prosecuted Harry Croswell, a Federalist editor, for seditious libel. Hamilton defended Croswell in this, the last important case of his life.
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