Career
He was United States. marshal of the District of Columbia, appointed by President James Monroe (1817-1825) and serving in the position through 1830, during the first two years of the administration of Andrew Jackson. Ringgold also owned a leather factory and curing shop in Georgetown. He was appointed Treasurer of the Georgetown Savings Institution in what was then a separate jurisdiction later annexed by the District of Columbia.
Ringgold was from a prominent early-American family that came to the British colonies in the early seventeenth century.
He had accompanied James Madison when the president and his cabinet were forced to flee Washington, District of Columbia, during the War of 1812. In 1825 he built a house in the capital.
lieutenant is now known as the Ringgold-Carroll House, referring also to a later resident. The house has been designated as an historic property and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ringgold married and had a family.
