Joseph Reed Ingersoll

Joseph Reed Ingersoll ( born June 14, 1786 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † February 20, 1868 ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1849 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Ingersoll was the son of Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822), who participated as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a brother of Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), who was also a congressman from Pennsylvania. After primary school he studied until 1804 at the Princeton College. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. In the 1830s he embarked on a political career. He joined the Whig Party, founded in 1835.

In the congressional elections of 1834, Ingersoll was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Horace Binney on March 4, 1835. Since he resigned in 1836 to run again, he could prefer to take only one term in Congress until March 3, 1837. This was determined by the discussions about the policies of President Andrew Jackson.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ingersoll practiced as a lawyer again. Following the resignation of Mr John Sergeant, he was elected to the due election for the second seat of his state as his successor in Congress, where he took up his new mandate on October 2, 1841. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1849 there. From 1847 to 1849 he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. 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. Since 1845 the Mexican -American War also influenced the work of the Congress.

1848 rejected Joseph Ingersoll from a nomination for re-election. In the years 1852 and 1853, he served as an American envoy in London. He died on February 20, 1868 in Philadelphia.