Samuel Ingham

This article pertains to American Congressman Samuel Ingham. The US Treasury Secretary of the same name can be found under Samuel D. Ingham .

Samuel Ingham (born September 5, 1793 in Hebron , Connecticut , † November 10, 1881 in Essex , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Ingham attended public schools in Vermont . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1815, he began to work there in the city of Canaan in his new profession. In 1819 he moved first to Jewett City and then to Essex, Connecticut. He also worked as a lawyer in both places. Between 1827 and 1835 he was a district attorney in Middlesex County . From 1829 to 1833 he also served as a judge at a probate court.

Politically, Ingham was a supporter of President Andrew Jackson , whose Democratic Party he joined. He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1828 and 1834 . Ingham was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 1834 Congressional elections, which were held nationwide in Connecticut . Two years later, after Connecticut was divided into congressional constituencies, he was sustained in the second district of his state. This enabled him to complete two legislative terms in Congress between March 4, 1835 and March 3, 1839 . From 1837 he was chairman of the naval committee. Ingham lost to William L. Storrs of the Whig Party in the 1838 election .

After his time in Congress, Ingham worked again as a lawyer, but remained politically active. He served in the Connecticut Senate between 1843 and 1850 . In the years 1851 and 1852 he was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state, whose president he was then. In 1854 Ingham ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . Between 1854 and 1858 he was also four times unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Connecticut. From 1857 to 1861 he worked as Commissioner of Customs for the customs authority of the federal government. Samuel Ingham died in Essex in November 1881.

Web links

• Samuel Ingham in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Ingham in the database of Find a Grave (English)