PA Congressman Charles Ingersoll 1815 ALS

Autograph Letter Signed by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862) author, lawyer and congressman. Letter dated March 1815 at Philadelphia, PA in which Ingersoll gives a legal opinion as Attorney for the District of Pennsylvania. Letter size 7.5" by 12.5" on wove, watermarked (AMIES), rag-content paper; small holes at intersection of folds, separation along one fold repaired from the reverse with archival quality tape, overall good condition. No postal markings. Charles Jared Ingersoll (October 3, 1782 – May 14, 1862) was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Charles Ingersoll was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Jared Ingersoll who served in the Continental Congress, and brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress, where he served as chairman of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1814, having been appointed United States district attorney for Pennsylvania. He served in that office from 1815 to 1829, and was a member of the State improvement convention in 1825. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1830, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837. He was appointed secretary of the legation to Prussia on March 8, 1837. Ingersoll was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses).

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