Background
John James Ingalls was born on December 29, 1833, in Middleton, Massachusetts, to Elias T. and Eliza Chase Ingalls. Part of his childhood was spent in Haverhill.
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John James Ingalls was born on December 29, 1833, in Middleton, Massachusetts, to Elias T. and Eliza Chase Ingalls. Part of his childhood was spent in Haverhill.
John Ingalls attended local schools and, in 1855, graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He returned to Haverhill to read law in the office of John J. Marsh and was admitted to the Essex County Bar in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1857. He decided to leave Massachusetts for Kansas Territory soon after his admittance to the bar. He helped found the town of Sumner in the new territory in 1858. In 1860 he was secretary of the territorial council and was also secretary of the first state senate, in 1861. The next year he was elected state senator from Atchison county. In that year, and again in 1864, he was nominated for lieutenant-governor on the anti-Lane ticket. During the Civil war he served as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. George W. Deitzler with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
His service in the United States Senate began in1873. His legislative interests included opposition to women’s suffrage and support of Negro civil rights. He opposed the tactics of the banking conglomerates and railroads.
His speeches and writings document his sometimes changing beliefs and views very clearly. He was in great demand as a speaker and served as eulogist at the funerals of many members of Congress. He also served as President protempore of the Senate.
He was a well known Senator and he found his work in Washington so stimulating that he admitted missing political life after leaving office in 1891.
His health deteriorated after that and he spent time traveling through the southwestern United States in an effort to improve it. His physical deterioration continued, however, and he died on August 16, 1900, in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
John Ingalls was a famous statesman. He succeeded in many things besides politics. These included the military, law, literature, banking, real estate, the newspaper business, prospecting, public speaking. He gained national renown for his essays on "Blue Grass" and the "Cat Fish Aristocracy".
In January, 1905, John Ingalls was honored with a marble statue in National Statuary Hall in the U. S. Capitol.
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Quotations:
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
In 1865 John Ingalls married Anna Louisa Chesebrough. Of this union eleven children were born.
