Ambrose Page (1723 – December 29, 1791) was a Rhode Island state legislator and admiralty judge who declined a seat as Justice of the

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in May 1781.Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., ''The Narragansett Historical Register'' (1889), Volume 7, p. 61. A native of

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, he "was a sea captain during the

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", and served in the

Rhode Island General Assembly The State of Rhode Island General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. A bicameral body, it is composed of the lower Rhode Island House of Representatives with 75 representatives, and the upper Rhode Island Se ...

. He was a judge of the court of admiralty from 1787 to 1790,Frederick Bernays Wiener, "Notes on the Rhode Island Admiralty, 1727-1790", ''Harvard Law Review'', Vol. 46, No. 1 (Nov., 1932), p. 65. prior to which he "had been judge of the Superior Court and of the Common Pleas, and member of the Council of War". He was described in the ''Providence Gazette'' as "for many Years a respectable nautical Commander from rovidence and had sustained several Offices of public Trust, the Duties of which he discharged with Ability and Integrity".''Providence Gazette'' (December 31, 1791). Page married Alice Smith, with whom he had a son, Benjamin Page, who served on ships in the

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1723 births 1791 deaths People from Providence, Rhode Island Members of the Rhode Island General Assembly Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court {{RhodeIsland-state-judge-stub