Charles Jared Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll ( born October 3, 1782 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † May 14, 1862 ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815, and again from 1841 to 1849, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Ingersoll was the son of Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822), a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1786-1868), congressman from Pennsylvania was. He enjoyed an academic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1802 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1812, Ingersoll was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Milnor on March 4, 1813. Since he resigned in 1814 to run again, he could prefer to take only one term in Congress until March 3, 1815. This was determined by the events of British - American War. During this time, Ingersoll was chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Between 1815 and 1829 acted Ingersoll as a federal prosecutor for the state of Pennsylvania. In 1825 he was a delegate at a meeting to improve the infrastructure of his home state. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1830 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and in 1837 he participated in the Constitutional Convention of his State. In 1837 he failed in a by-election and the following year at the regular congressional elections with the attempt to return to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Only in the elections of 1840 Ingersoll was then re-elected in the third district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Charles Naylor on March 4, 1841. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1849 the House of Representatives. The time until 1845 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico. This discussion led to the Mexican-American War. From 1843 to 1847 Charles Ingersoll was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

In 1848 he gave up another candidacy. Already in 1847 he had been appointed as the successor to William R. King as the new American ambassador to France - an office which he could not compete because the U.S. Senate did not approve the appointment. Charles Ingersoll died on May 14, 1862 in Philadelphia, where he was also buried.