After serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1763, he was selected as a delegate to the first colonial (or Stamp Act) congress of 1765 meeting in New York on October 7, Ruggles was elected its president.
He was selected as a delegate to the first colonial (or Stamp Act) congress of 1765 meeting in New York on October 7. Ruggles was elected its president a delegate to the first colonial (or Stamp Act) congress of 1765 meeting in New York on October 7. He was serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1763.