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Senate Years of Service: 1873-1891 Party: Republican
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INGALLS, John James, a Senator from Kansas; born in Middleton, Essex County, Mass., December 29,
1833; attended the public schools in Haverhill, Mass., and was privately tutored; graduated from
Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857; moved to
Kansas in 1858; member of the State constitutional convention 1859; secretary of the Territorial
Council 1860; secretary of the State senate 1861; during the Civil War served as judge advocate of
the Kansas Volunteers; member, State senate 1862; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of
Kansas in 1862 and 1864; edited the Atchison Champion 1863-1865 and aided in founding the
Kansas Magazine; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1872; reelected in 1879
and again in 1885 and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1891; served as President pro
tempore of the Senate during the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1890; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses), Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-seventh through Fifty-first Congresses);
devoted his time to journalism, literature, and farming until his death in East Las Vegas, N.Mex.,
August 16, 1900; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kans.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Ingalls, John. A Collection of the Writings of
John Ingalls. Edited by William Connelley. Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Co., 1902;
Williams, Burton. Senator John James Ingalls, Kansas Iridescent Republican.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1972.
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