Charles Jared Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll (October 3, 1782 – May 14, 1862) was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Jared Ingersoll who served in the Continental Congress, and brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll.

Charles Ingersoll dropped out of the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1799.[1] He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress, where he served as chairman of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1814, having been appointed United States district attorney for Pennsylvania. He served in that office from 1815 to 1829, and was a member of the State improvement convention in 1825.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1830, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837.

He was appointed secretary of the legation to Prussia on March 8, 1837. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1837 for election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis J. Harper in the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1838.

Ingersoll was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1848. He was appointed Minister to France in 1847 but was not confirmed by the Senate. He died in 1862 in Philadelphia. Interment in The Woodlands Cemetery.

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Bibliography

  • Ingersoll, Charles Jared. Recollections, Historical, Political, Biographical, and Social, of Charles J. Ingersoll. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., 1861
  • Meigs, William Montgomery. The Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll. 1897. Reprint, New York: DaCapo Press, 1970.

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References

  1. ^ Princeton University Library. "Ingersoll Family Collection". http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=C1090. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011. 

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Adam Seybert,
James Milnor,
William Anderson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district

1813–1815
alongside John Conrad and Adam Seybert
Succeeded by
Joseph Hopkinson,
William Milnor,
Thomas Smith,
Jonathan Williams
Preceded by
Charles Naylor
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

1841–1843
Succeeded by
John T. Smith
Preceded by
Jeremiah Brown
Francis James
John Edwards
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district

1843–1849
Succeeded by
John Robbins



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