CAMBRELENG, Churchill C.; was born in Washington, North Carolina in 1786; received an academic education at Newberne, in that State; had a special fondness for field sports, but did not let them interfere with his duties as a clerk in a Carolina store, where he was engaged for two years; removed to New York City in 1802, which was afterwards his home, excepting the year 1806, when he was a counting house clerk in Providence, Rhode Island; at an early day engaged in mercantile pursuits with John Jacob Astor, and traveled extensively over the world; was a Representative in Congress from new York from 1821 to 1839, and officiated as Chairman of the Committees on Commerce, Ways and Means and on Foreign Affairs; in 1840 was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia; his reports and political pamphlets were at one time very numerous, one of the former, on Commerce and Navigation, having gone through several editions and been re-published in London; it was while traveling in Europe he received the appointment of Minister and on his return to the United States he retired to Private life.  Died at West Neck, Long Island, April 30, 1862.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 78)