Philip Spencer (January 28 1823 – December 1 1842) a midshipman aboard the USS Somers was hanged for mutiny without a lawful court-martial. He was the son of John C. Spencer Secretary of War in U.S. President John Tyler’s administration and the grandson of Ambrose Spencer a New York politician and lawyer.
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