No SLAVERY WHIG CONGRESSMAN PA DIPLOMAT UK INGERSOLL FREE FRANK AUTOGRAPH SIGNED

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JOSEPH REED INGERSOLL
(1786 - 1868)
WHIG PARTY US CONGRESSMAN and STATESMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA 1841-1849,
ANTI-JACKSONIAN CONGRESSMAN FROM PA 1835-1837,
US DIPLOMAT - MINISTER TO THE UNITED KINGDOM APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE 1852-1853,
&
SON OF JARED INGERSOLL and BROTHER OF FELLOW PA CONGRESSMAN CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL.
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HERE's INGERSOLL’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY CONGRESSIONAL FREE FRANK COVER, and SIGNED:
“J. R. Ingersoll
This document frank measures 2” x ¾” and is in VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a faint remnant of the red post office “
FREE
” handstamp.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL
Joseph Reed Ingersoll
(June 14, 1786 – February 20, 1868) was an
American
lawyer and statesman from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. In 1835 he followed his father,
Jared Ingersoll
, and his older brother,
Charles Jared Ingersoll
, to represent
Pennsylvania
in the
U.S. House
.
Biography
He graduated from
Princeton College
in 1804. He studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Philadelphia
. In 1825, Ingersoll was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
.
He was elected in
1834
as a
Whig
anti-
Jacksonian
candidate to the
Twenty-fourth
Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1836
, serving 1835–1837. He resumed the practice of law.
Ingersoll was elected as a
Whig
to the
Twenty-seventh
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
John Sergeant
. He was reelected as a Whig to the
Twenty-eighth
,
Twenty-ninth
, and
Thirtieth
Congresses. He declined to accept the nomination as a candidate for reelection in
1848
. In all, his second stay in office lasted from 1841 to 1849.
He was the chairman of the
United States House Committee on the Judiciary
during the Thirtieth Congress. He was an advocate for protection and a firm supporter of
Henry Clay
. One of his noted efforts in the House was a defense of Clay's
tariff of 1842
.
In 1852, President
Millard Fillmore
sent him to the
United Kingdom
as the
U.S. Minister
. He served about a year, and then retired to private life, devoting himself to literary pursuits. The degree of
LL.D.
was conferred on him by Lafayette and Bowdoin in 1836, and that of D.C.L. by Oxford in 1845.
He died in Philadelphia in 1868. Interment in St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Churchyard.
Works
He was a warm adherent of the Union, and at the time of the
American Civil War
prepared an essay entitled "Secession, a Folly and a Crime." He published a translation from the Latin of Roceus's (Francesco Rocco's) tracts "De Navibus et Naulo" and "De Assecuratione" (Philadelphia, 1809), and was the author of a
Memoir of
Samuel Breck
(1863).
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