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Charles Jared Ingersoll was an American lawyer, author and Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. His career is mainly interesting because of his courage and vigor in championing causes and groups which were unpopular in his own social environment.
Background
Charles Jared was born on October 3, 1782 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest son of Jared Ingersoll, Jr. and Elizabeth (Pettit) Ingersoll. He was the brother of Joseph Reed Ingersoll and the father of Edward Ingersoll.
He spent his early years amid the stirring scenes of federal union, formation of parties, and impassioned controversies between the pro-French and anti-French groups when Philadelphia was the nation's capital. These conditions and the examples of his father and grandfather naturally turned his mind toward politics and law.
Education
In 1796 Charles Jared entered Princeton, but political debate and affairs dictated by youthful exuberance prevailed over the routine and discipline of college life and his college career ended in its third year. He then resumed his studies with tutors.
Career
Ingersoll published a poem in the Portfolio, and wrote a tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, which was successfully staged at Philadelphia's leading theatre in April 1801. He also found time to read law and was admitted to the bar in 1802, when less than twenty years old, but before attempting extensive legal practice he traveled abroad.
Ingersoll's View of the Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy, of the United States of America appeared in 1808. Soon afterward, in 1810, under the preposterous title of Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters, appeared another pamphlet indicating the intellectual boldness of the young Philadelphian. Both pamphlets were widely read in America and abroad and were influential in stimulating a sense of national self-sufficiency. They constituted "a declaration of literary, social, and moral independence" at a time when "the United States were yet British in almost everything except government".
His tendencies away from the Loyalist ideas of his grandfather and the Federalist views of his father were recognized in 1811 in his nomination by the Republicans for the post of state assemblyman. He was defeated, but in 1812 he was elected to Congress. He at once attained an influential position, becoming chairman of the judiciary committee and a member of the foreign relations committee. Military reverses led to political reverses for the Republicans, whose position in Philadelphia was precarious at best, and Ingersoll was not reelected.
Upon his retirement from Congress he returned to Philadelphia and acquired a varied and lucrative practice at the bar. He was appointed to the post of United States district attorney, which he retained for fourteen years (1815-29). In 1825 he was a member of a convention on canals and public improvements meeting at Harrisburg. With typical initiative he advocated railroad transportation by means of steam locomotives, but he was defeated by the proponents of canals. Two years later, at the so-called Harrisburg Convention, representing proponents of protective tariff legislation, he was chairman of the committee which prepared a memorial to Congress.
Meanwhile he reverted to literary activities. In 1823 he had addressed the American Philosophical Society on "The Influence of America on the Mind, " a paper published and read extensively abroad as well as in America. Soon afterward he wrote a play, Julian: a Tragedy, which was published in 1831. In 1830-31 Ingersoll served for one term as a state assemblyman. In the nominations for United States senator he received a plurality vote in each house but was unable to command a majority in the election.
In the early thirties he was active politically in connection with the Bank of the United States. He first favored renewal of the charter, but the bank's entry into politics occasioned his reversal of attitude and his avowal of Jackson's cause - a course at that time hardly popular in Philadelphia, the home of the bank. He was one of the authors of the sub-treasury plan.
Upon his defeat for reelection to Congress in 1814, Ingersoll had decided "to be a mere lawyer, jurisconsultus merus, for the next fifteen years. " But after he had attained an independent income, apparently he desired to resume his career in national affairs. He therefore welcomed the nomination in 1837 by the Jacksonian Democrats, heirs of the Jeffersonian Republicans, for a seat in Congress. At the ensuing special election he and his ticket were defeated. Nor was he successful in the regular election of 1838, but in 1840 he won the election and continued in office until 1849. When his party acquired a majority in Congress he was given the post of chairman of the committee on foreign affairs. It was during his chairmanship and partly as a result of his influence that the joint resolution for the annexation of Texas was adopted.
At the end of his fourth consecutive term in Congress he retired, at the age of sixty-seven, and spent his remaining years in literary activities. His four-volume history of the War of 1812 appeared under two titles: Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain, and History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great Britain. In 1861 he published his memoirs in a two-volume work entitled Recollections.
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Politics
Although generally in favor of protection, Ingersoll was inclined toward moderating the more extreme demands, and toward conciliating Southern opponents. He consistently opposed the extremists among the anti-slavery group in the north and held that the vital function of those who represented the central states, "the temperate zone of American republican continental union, " was to arbitrate the differences between "the slave-holding southwest and the slave-hating northeast. " As a result of his views he incurred the intense antagonism of John Quincy Adams and others.
In Pennsylvania politics he participated in the revision of the constitution, and in the convention of 1837 he was chairman of a special committee on currency and corporations. He proposed the limiting of the powers of corporations and the rejection of the contract doctrine of charters as enunciated in the noted Dartmouth case.
Personality
Ingersoll was an energetic and effective debater on most of the outstanding issues before Congress and was particularly active in connection with the sectional and group controversies of the time.
In politics as in literature he had considerable talent, but he viewed both of these fields as avocations and never acquired the mastery of technique and the persistence requisite for a commanding position either as author or as statesman. He was a man of vivid personality, outstanding ability as a lawyer, and fascinating gifts as an orator.
Connections
On October 18, 1804, Ingersoll was married to Mary Wilcocks. His son Edward Ingersoll wrote on legal topics.