Ralph I. Ingersoll
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll | |
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U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire | |
| In office August 8, 1846 – July 1, 1848 | |
| President | James K. Polk |
| Preceded by | Charles Stewart Todd |
| Succeeded by | Arthur P. Bagby |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's at-large district | |
| In office March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1833 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel A. Foot |
| Succeeded by | Samuel A. Foot |
| 4th Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
| In office 1824–1824 | |
| Preceded by | Seth Preston Beers |
| Succeeded by | Samuel A. Foot |
| Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
| In office 1820–1825 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 8, 1789 Anti-Jacksonian (1825–1833) |
| Spouse |
Margaret Van den Heuvel
(m. 1814) |
| Children | 7, including Charles Roberts, Colin Macrae |
| Parent(s) | Jonathan Ingersoll Grace Isaacs Ingersoll |
| Relatives | Charles A. Ingersoll (brother) |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (February 8, 1789 – August 26, 1872) was a lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he was
U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire under President James K. Polk
in the late 1840s.
Early life
Ingersoll was born in
née Isaacs) Ingersoll (1772–1850). His father was a judge of the Supreme Court and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut up until his death in 1823.[2]
His maternal grandfather, and namesake, was Ralph Isaacs Jr., a Yale educated merchant who was prominent in New Haven and
U.S. Senator Nathan Sanford in 1813.[5]
He pursued classical studies, and was graduated from Yale College in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in New Haven.[1]
Career
Ingersoll was a member of the State house of representatives from 1820 until 1825 and served as speaker during the last two years. He was elected as an Adams candidate to the
Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from March 4, 1825, until March 3, 1833. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1832.[1]
He resumed the practice of law and was later appointed State's attorney for New Haven County in 1833.Nathan Smith in 1835.[1]
On August 8, 1846, he was appointed by
U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire.[8] He presented his credentials in Russia on May 30, 1847, and served until he resigned and left his post on July 1, 1848.[9] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1848.[10] He again engaged in the practice of law and was Mayors of New Haven in 1851.[1]
Personal life
In 1814, Ingersoll married Margaret Catharine Eleanora
U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton), and Susan Augusta Van den Heuvel, the mother of Charlotte Augusta Gibbes, wife of John Jacob Astor III, from her marriage to Thomas Stanyarne Gibbes II.[2] Together, Ralph and Margaret were the parents of seven children:[12]
- John Van den Heuvel Ingersoll (1815–1846), a Yale educated lawyer who edited a political paper in Ohio and served as secretary of the Indian Commission.[13] He drowned during a fishing excursion on Lake Erie.[13]
- Ralph Apthorp Ingersoll[14]
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903),[15] who was also a member of Congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855.[16] He married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of U.S. Representative Zadock Pratt.[12]
- Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), who served as Governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1877. He married Virginia Gregory, the daughter of Admiral Francis Gregory.[2]
- Grace Suzette Ingersoll (1823–1904)
- William Adrian Ingersoll (1825–1865), a U.S. Navy.
- Justine Henrietta Ingersoll (1827–1832), who died young.
Ingersoll died in New Haven on August 26, 1872, and was buried in Grove Street Cemetery.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "INGERSOLL, Ralph Isaacs - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Selleck, A.M., Rev. Charles Melbourne (1896). Norwalk. p. 331. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ISBN 9780806301594. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ISBN 9780813162461. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ISBN 9781438466958. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ISBN 9780689115547. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ISBN 9780557264698. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll - People - Department History". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ Brown, Henry Collins (1917). Valentine's Manual of the City of New York. Valentine Company. p. 163. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ a b Cutter, William Richard (1913). New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. Vol. 3. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- ^ a b Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1913). Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College: Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1815, who are Not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records. Yale College. p. 252. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. University Microfilms. 1967. p. 197. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Colin M. Ingersoll Dead: Pneumonia Carries Off a Man Prominent in Connecticut for Half a Century" (PDF). The New York Times. September 14, 1903.
- ^ "INGERSOLL, Colin Macrae - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
External links
- United States Congress. "Ralph I. Ingersoll (id: I000020)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Ralph I. Ingersoll at Find a Grave
- The Inventory of the Ralph Ingersoll Collection #113 at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
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