House of Representatives from Delaware 1817 to 1827.
Battles of Trois-Rivières, Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Staten Island, Brandywine, Germantown and Rhode Island.
A Harvard educated attorney, Ames was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Congress serving from 1805 to 1819.
Upon his release two years later he was commissioned a brevet Brigadier General.
Bingham marshaled the Second Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse.