Samuel D. Ingham

Samuel Delucenna Ingham ( born June 16, 1779 New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † June 5, 1860 in Trenton, New Jersey ) was an American politician, who was the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson as Minister of Finance.

Family and career

Ingham was born into a farming family and enjoyed only a brief education. In his youth, he worked in a paper mill. After his father's death he helped initially on the family farm before he went in 1798 to New Jersey to work in a paper mill. After his return, he founded his own paper mill in his hometown.

After his resignation as finance minister, he devoted himself from 1831 onwards again various activities as a paper manufacturer as well as a shareholder in anthracite mines.

Political career

Parliamentarians in Pennsylvania and Congressman

He began his political career in 1806 with the election of the Members of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1808. In 1813 he was elected as Members of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time. There he found, firstly to 1818 the sixth congressional district of his home state. After that, he was a year employee of the District Court in Bucks County. Between October 1819 and December 1820 he was a member of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the state government of Pennsylvania.

1822 Ingham was first elected as representatives of the sixth constituency and then from 1823 as a deputy of the eighth district again in the House of Representatives, which he then belonged until 1829. At first he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party; after its dissolution he joined the Democrats.

During his deputies time he was several times chairman of parliamentary committees. From 1813 to 1815 he was first chairman of the Committee for pensions and compensation claims and then subsequently from 1815 to 1818 and from 1825 to 1829 Chairman of the Postal Committee. 1817 to 1818 he was also Chairman of the Committee for expenditure by the postal system.

Treasury under President Jackson

On March 6, 1829, U.S. President Andrew Jackson appointed him as finance minister in his cabinet. During Jackson's term of office came to an industrial expansion in the United States, which has become a symbol of a new government in favor of the simple citizen. Right at the beginning of the activity as a minister, he was entrusted by Jackson with the dissolution of the Second Bank of the United States, as the President, but also many other politicians, they saw as unconstitutional and a dangerous monopoly. Jackson was at the same time opponents of paper money and coins proponents of circulation of money and the view that the Constitution excluded the issue of paper money in the monetary system.

On the other hand Ingham was a supporter of the Second Bank, trying in vain to mediate between Jackson and the Bank's President, Nicholas Biddle.

On 20 June 1831, he met with other ministers because of the so-called " Petticoat Affair" to the wife of the then Minister of War John Henry Eaton back. Successor as finance minister was Louis McLane.

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