Churchill C. Cambreleng
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Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (1786 - 1862) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York between 1821 and 1839.
Cambreleng was born in Washington, North Carolina and moved to New York City in 1802. He served as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Twenty-third U.S. Congress and as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses. Politically, Cambreleng was a (Jeffersonian) Republican, then a Crawford Republican, and finally a Jacksonian.
Cambreleng was defeated for re-election in 1838. President Martin van Buren appointed him United States Minister to Russia in 1840.
