Ambrose Madison Richardson was born in Chicago, grew up in Illinois, and graduated from Harvard College and Law School. He finished reading all 166 Landmark Books before the age of 12, and later learned that some of his ancestors took part in the events he read about it. The great grandfather after whom he was named spent six years fighting the British during the American Revolution, from Great Bridge to Yorktown in Virginia, with the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, the winter at Valley Forge, and the Battle of Monmouth, in between. George Washington was a first cousin, several generations removed. He is a past president of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, past president of the Waterside Tenants Association, currently president of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York and General Secretary of the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and a former Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 7 in Champaign, IL. He began practicing law in 1969 next door to the NYSE, and currently practices law on Wall St. in the areas of business, property, and estates, and related litigation.
