Colin M. Ingersoll

Colin Macrae Ingersoll ( born March 11, 1819 in New Haven, Connecticut; † September 13, 1903 ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education Colin Ingersoll attended Trinity College in Hartford. He then studied law at Yale College. After his made ​​in 1839 admitted to the bar he began in New Haven to work in his new profession. In 1843 he was employed in the management of the Senate of Connecticut.

As a member of the Democratic Party Ingersoll was appointed by President James K. Polk to the secretary at the American Embassy in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. There he served 1847-1848. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was in the second district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter Booth on March 4, 1851. After a re-election in 1852 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ingersoll again worked as a lawyer. Between 1867 and 1871 he served as Adjutant General of Connecticut head of the National Guard of that State. Colin Ingersoll died in September 1903 in his birthplace of New Haven and was also buried there. Colin Ingersoll was the son of Congressman Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and brother of Governor Charles Roberts Ingersoll.