Charles Jared Ingersoll

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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.

Charles Ingersoll was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Jared Ingersoll who served in the Continental Congress, and brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was elected as a 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Sources

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

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