Charles Jared Ingersoll

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Early life and education

Ingersoll was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jared Ingersoll and Elizabeth Petit.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His father served in the Continental Congress and his brother of Joseph 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 the Confederation Congress.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Charles Ingersoll dropped out of the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1799.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He traveled in Europe, accompanied by Rufus King, the United States minister to the United Kingdom.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Congress

In 1812, Ingersoll 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,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 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 by U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

In 1815, Ingersoll was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.

Later career

He was appointed Minister to France in 1847 but was not confirmed by the Senate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Beginning in 1845 Ingersoll wrote several editions of a history of the War of 1812, including descriptions of the Congressional investigation of the Burning of Washington in 1814.<ref>Ingersoll, Charles J. (Charles Jared), 1782–1862: History of the second war between the United States of America, and Great Britain [electronic resource] : declared by Act of Congress, the 18th of June, 1812, and concluded by peace, the 15th of February, 1815 / (Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1845).</ref><ref>Shafer, Ronald G. Congress investigated an attack on the Capitol 200 years ago. It didn’t go well. Washington Post 20 October 2021.</ref>

Death

He died in Philadelphia on May 14, 1862.

Personal life

In 1804, Ingersoll married Mary Wilcocks, the daughter of Alexander Wilcocks, and together had six surviving sons and 2 daughters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His son Edward Ingersoll wrote on legal topics.

Bibliography

He also published numerous anonymous contributions to the Democratic Press of Philadelphia, and to the National 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 the American 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 the American Law Journal of 1829, and many other literary and political discourses. At the time of his death, he was preparing a History of the Territorial Acquisitions of the United States.

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