Spencer Houghton Cone

Spencer Houghton Cone (April 13, 1785, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American clergyman.

He entered Princeton University at the age of twelve, but two years later, because of his father’s illness, left his studies.

Finding his salary insufficient to support his family, he first studied law, but abandoned it and turned to the stage.

Soon afterward, in connection with his brother-in-law, John Norvell, he purchased and published the Baltimore "Whig."

On the formation of the American Bible union, he was made its president, and so continued until his death on August 28, 1855.