Samuel Williams Inge

Samuel Williams Inge ( born February 22, 1817 Warren County, North Carolina, † June 10 1868 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician (Democratic Party). He was the nephew of William Marshall Inge, a congressman from Tennessee.

Career

Samuel Inge moved to Greene County, Alabama, where he attended public schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Livingston. Inge was in 1844 and 1845 a member of the House of Representatives from Alabama over the years. He was elected to the 30th U.S. Congress and re-elected in the following 31 U.S. Congress. Inge worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1847 to 3 March 1851. During this time he held the Presidency of the Committee on District of Columbia ( 31 U.S. Congress ). He also participated in a duel with Edward Stanly, a deputy from North Carolina, in Bladensburg near Washington, DC part where none was seriously injured.

After the expiration of his term he resumed his work as a lawyer again. Inge was appointed by U.S. President Franklin Pierce to the Attorney General for the Northern District of California on April 1, 1853. He died in 1868 in San Francisco and was buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery.

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