Ranney was in the corporation counsel for the city from 1855 to 1857. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1857, 1863, and 1864 and served as a Republican in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (1881–1887).[2] Ranney supported women’s suffrage.[3] He failed reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. He then resumed the practice of law until his death.[2]
^United States. Congress. House. Woman suffrage : views of the minority. [Washington : Government Printing Office, 1886?] 3 p.; 23 cm. JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 99, #7
Rand, John C., ed. (1890). "Ranney, Ambrose A." . One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. D. 1888–'89. Boston: First National Publishing Company. pp. 500–501.
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