Charles J. Ingersoll | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's4th district | |
| In office March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849 | |
| Preceded by | |
| Succeeded by | John Robbins |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's3rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Naylor |
| Succeeded by | John T. Smith |
| Chair of theHouse Judiciary Committee | |
| In office March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Nelson |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's1st district | |
| In office March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 | |
| Preceded by | |
| Succeeded by | |
| Member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives | |
| In office 1830 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1782-10-03)October 3, 1782 |
| Died | May 14, 1862(1862-05-14) (aged 79) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
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Charles Jared Ingersoll (October 3, 1782 – May 14, 1862) was an American lawyer, writer and politician who served as aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1813 to 1815,Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1841 to 1843 andPennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1843 to 1849. He served as a member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives in 1830.
Ingersoll was born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania toJared Ingersoll and Elizabeth Petit.[1] His father served in theContinental Congress and his brother ofJoseph Reed Ingersoll served as a member of the U.S. House of Representative for Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather,Charles Pettit, served as a delegate for Pennsylvania to theConfederation Congress.[2]
Charles Ingersoll dropped out of the College of New Jersey, laterPrinceton University, in 1799.[3] He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He traveled in Europe, accompanied byRufus King, the United States minister to the United Kingdom.[4]
In 1812, Ingersoll was elected as aDemocratic-Republican to theThirteenth Congress, where he served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on the Judiciary. He was not a candidate for renomination in1814, having been appointedUnited States district attorney for Pennsylvania. He served in that office from 1815 to 1829,[5] and was a member of the Pennsylvania canal and internal improvement convention in 1825. In 1829, he was removed from the office of district attorney byU.S. PresidentAndrew Jackson.
In 1815, Ingersoll was elected a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society.[6]
He was a member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives in 1830, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837. He was appointed secretary of the legation toPrussia on March 8, 1837. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1837 for election to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofFrancis J. Harper in theTwenty-fifth Congress. He was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in1838.[7]
Ingersoll was elected as aDemocrat to theTwenty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during theTwenty-eighth andTwenty-ninth Congresses).
He was not a candidate for renomination in1848.
He was appointed Minister toFrance in 1847 but was not confirmed by theSenate.[8]
Beginning in 1845 Ingersoll wrote several editions of a history of the War of 1812, including descriptions of theCongressional investigation of theBurning of Washington in 1814.[9][10]
He died in Philadelphia on May 14, 1862.
In 1804, Ingersoll married Mary Wilcocks, the daughter of Alexander Wilcocks, and together had six surviving sons and 2 daughters.[11] His sonEdward Ingersoll wrote on legal topics.
He also published numerous anonymous contributions to theDemocratic Press of Philadelphia, and to theNational Intelligencer of Washington, on the controversies with England before the War of 1812 (1811–15). He published several “Speeches” concerning that war (1813–15), a discourse before theAmerican Philosophical Society on the “Influence of America on the Mind,” which was republished in England and France (1823), a translation of a French work on the freedom of navigation, in theAmerican Law Journal of 1829, and many other literary and political discourses. At the time of his death, he was preparing aHistory of the Territorial Acquisitions of the United States.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 1st congressional district 1813–1815 alongsideJohn Conrad andAdam Seybert | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 3rd congressional district 1841–1843 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1843–1849 | Succeeded by |
