| LC control no. | n 85235621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 |
| Variant(s) | Ingalls, John J. (John James), 1833-1900 Ingalls, Mr. (John James), 1833-1900 |
| Birth date | 1833-12-29 |
| Death date | 1900-08-16 |
| Place of birth | Middleton (Mass.) |
| Place of death | East Las Vegas (N.M.) |
| Affiliation | Williams College Kansas Territory. Constitutional Convention (1859) Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. Council Kansas. Legislature. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Judge advocates Editors |
| Found in | His Opportunity, 192-? (John J. Ingalls) Williams, B.J. Senator John James Ingalls, Kansas' iridescent Republican, 1972. In the Senate of the United States, 1876?: p. 1 (Mr. Ingalls) Members of Congress since 1789, 1977 (Ingalls, John James, R Kan., Dec. 29, 1833-Aug. 16, 1900; Senate 1873-91; Pres. pro tempore 1887-91) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, March 7, 2016 (Ingalls, John James, a Senator from Kansas; born in Middleton, Essex County, Mass., December 29, 1833; attended the public schools in Haverhill, Mass., and was privately tutored; graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857; moved to Kansas in 1858; member of the State constitutional convention 1859; secretary of the Territorial Council 1860; secretary of the State senate 1861; during the Civil War served as judge advocate of the Kansas Volunteers; member, State senate 1862; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of Kansas in 1862 and 1864; edited the Atchison Champion 1863-1865 and aided in founding the Kansas Magazine; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1872; reelected in 1879 and again in 1885 and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1891; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-seventh through Fifty-first Congresses); devoted his time to journalism, literature, and farming until his death in East Las Vegas, N.Mex., August 16, 1900; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kans.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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