Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll

Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll ( born February 8, 1789 in New Haven, Connecticut; † August 26, 1872 ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also a 1846-1848 Ambassador of the United States in Russia.

Career

After a good primary education Ralph Ingersoll attended until 1808, the Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1810 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in New Haven. Politically, he joined in the 1820s the Group to the future President John Quincy Adams to, emerged from the short-lived then the National Republican Party. Ingersoll was a member of this party, which was in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party later.

In the congressional elections of 1824, which were held all across the state, Ingersoll was for the fifth parliamentary seat of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ansel Sterling on March 4, 1825. After three re- elections, he was able to complete 1833 four contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. These were determined by the political conflicts between the two competing parties. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in March 1829 whose policy was the focus of discussions. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act and the Nullifikationskrise to a federal Customs Act with the State of South Carolina. Later still came the added discussion about the banking policy of the President.

In 1832 Ingersoll opted not to run again for Congress. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer. In 1833 he became district attorney in New Haven County. After the death of U.S. Senator Nathan Smith in 1835 Ingersoll refused to him being transferred to appoint his successor. Between 1846 and 1848 he was an American envoy to Russia. After his return he continued his activities as a lawyer. In 1851, Ingersoll was elected mayor of New Haven. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared.

Ralph Ingersoll died on 26 August 1872 in his birthplace of New Haven. His son Colin (1819-1903) was of 1851-1855 also the state of Connecticut in Congress. Meanwhile, younger brother Charles (1821-1903) was from 1873 to 1877 Governor of Connecticut.