John Rambo (politician)
John Rambo was a judge and elected official in colonial New Jersey.
John Rambo was the youngest of eight children born to a Swedish immigrant family. Rambo's father, Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, was one of the first colonists in the Swedish colony of New Sweden. John Rambo was a judge in Gloucester County court from 1695 to 1697. He was also one of the first Swedish-Americans to be elected to the council of New Jersey. In 1685 Rambo married Brigitta Cock, the daughter of Peter Larsson Cock who a justice of the New Sweden court. John Rambo and his wife had 11 children.
