John James Ingalls

John James Ingalls (born December 29, 1833 in Middleton , Essex County , Massachusetts , † August 16, 1900 in Las Vegas , New Mexico ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kansas in the US Senate .

John James Ingalls attended school in Haverhill , but also received private tuition. He continued his education at Williams College , where he graduated in 1855. His thesis was entitled Mummy Life ( Mummy Life ) and represented a satirical view of everyday college life. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857.

In 1860 Ingalls moved to the Kansas Territory , where he settled in Atchison . He joined the anti-slavery movement and helped make Kansas a slave-free state after the border war . As a member of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention , he is credited with proposing the later state motto Ad Astra per Aspera .

After Kansas' admission to the Union, Ingalls became secretary to the State Senate , to which he himself belonged in 1862. During the Civil War he served as a judge advocate in the Kansas militia. Ingalls achieved national fame with his articles for the Atchison newspaper Freedom's Champion .

In 1873 the Republican Ingalls was elected to the US Senate, where he replaced Samuel C. Pomeroy . After multiple re-elections, he spent 18 years in Congress , campaigning for the rights of workers and farmers. He also supported the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. In the same year he was elected pro tempore President of the Senate , which he remained until he left Parliament on March 2, 1891.

John James Ingalls died in New Mexico in 1900. His statue, created by Charles Niehaus , five years later in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington, DC set up. Each state is represented there with two statues of well-known personalities; in addition to Ingalls, for Kansas this is former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower . At the political level there are repeated efforts to replace the little-known senator with an image of the missing aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart . His son Sheffield (1875-1937) was Lieutenant Governor of Kansas between 1913 and 1915 .

Web links

John James Ingalls in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Ingalls, John James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Middleton , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1900
Place of death	Las Vegas , New Mexico