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Manual of Parliamentary Practice. Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies
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A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls; Essays, Addresses, and Orations
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Ingalls, John James was an American Republican politician. He wrote many works for magazines and newspapers, notably studied of his family, a pamphlet, Edmund Ingalls (1628-9) and Some of His Descendants (1881).
Background
John James Ingalls was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, United States, on December 29, 1833. He was the oldest child of Elias Theodore Ingalls, a businessman of Haverhill, later a shoe manufacturer, and of Eliza (Chase) Ingalls. Both parents were of old New England stock, and Ingalls subsequently traced his ancestry eight generations back to Edmund Ingalls who, coming to Salem in 1628, founded Lynn, Massachussets, the following year.
Education
John James prepared for college at the Haverhill high school and with tutors. In 1851 he entered Williams College at Williamstown, then under Mark Hopkins, and was graduated in 1855. His reactions he summed up in his Commencement oration, "Mummy Life, " the delivery of which trenchant criticism of the faculty almost cost him his diploma.
Career
For two years after college Ingalls studied law and at twenty-four was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. In 1858 he was attracted to the boom town of Sumner, Kansas; in 1860 he moved to Atchison, which was his home for forty years.
In 1859 he was a member of the Wyandotte constitutional convention and the next year was secretary of the Territorial Council; in 1861 he was secretary of the first state Senate; and in 1862 was state senator.
During the Civil War he served as judge advocate in the Kansas militia and was in the field at the time of Price's raid, but apparently saw little action. For more than a year, in the absence of Col. John A. Martin, he served as editor of the Atchison Freedom's Champion.
He was a member of the convention to choose delegates to the Chicago convention of 1860. In 1862, however, defeated for his Republican party nomination as lieutenant-governor, he accepted the nomination of the bolting faction which, with its Democratic allies, was known locally as the Union party. In this campaign and again in 1864 he was defeated for this office. In 1872, when Senator S. C. Pomeroy, whose term expired in 1873, was a candidate for reelection, Ingalls was announced in opposition, seemingly hopeless until A. M. York, a member of the Kansas legislature, made sensational charges of bribery against Pomeroy and produced seven thousand dollars which he declared he had received in bargain for his vote. As a result of this disclosure, Ingalls was elected, in January 1873, by the joint convention of the legislature. In 1878, charges were presented concerning the methods used in his reelection, but the Senate investigation did not substantiate them.
His third election was almost uncontested and during part of his last term he was president pro tempore of the Senate. In the campaign of 1890, his reelection was a major issue in Kansas. More potent than the bitterly hostile Democratic minority was the newly created People's Party. Following the election, but before the legislature met, Ingalls made a surprising speech in the Senate in which he strongly indorsed the agrarian position and appealed again to sectional hate; but this attempt to divide his enemies provoked only derision, and W. A. Peffer was elected.
Ingalls did not again participate in politics, but devoted his time henceforth to lecturing and writing. Aside from his edition (1895) of L. S. Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, most of his writing was for magazines and newspapers.
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Politics
Ingalls was affiliated with the Republican party.
Personality
As a writer, Ingalls was witty and clever rather than profound. He was a great speaker, his particular strength lay in denunciation; standing cold and motionless, he could pour out a flood of vitriolic abuse. He was a master in the use of the "bloody shirt, " and utilized it in any debate.
He was not a signally successful lawyer and never achieved wealth, his letters reveal strong family ties.
Connections
In 1865 John married Anna Louisa Cheseborough, who had recently come to Atchison from New York. Seven of their eleven children lived to maturity. Their home in Atchison was modest.