Ambrose Everett Burnside Small 313×320 Medium 625×640 Large 1001×1024 Download Tiff Original 2345×2400 | (6.4 MB) Description Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. Keywords American Civil War, general, kinventors, portrait, Rhode Island, U.S. Senator, US Senator, USGovernor Galleries Famous People: B, Inventors, US Governors, US Senators Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 1) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)