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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasINGALLS, John James
(1833—1900)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1891
Party:
Republican
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.
Bibliography
American 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.
Argersinger, Peter H. “The Most Picturesque Drama: The Kansas Senatorial Election of 1891.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
38 (Spring 1972): 43-64.
Connelley, William Elsey. Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study
. Topeka: The Author, 1909.
___, ed. A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls
. Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1902.
McFarland, David F., Jr. “The Ingalls Amendment to the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
11 (May 1942): 173-98.
Sandefur, Ray H. “The Ingalls-Voorhees Debate of 1888.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
17 (August 1949): 243-53.
Williams, Burton J. “John James Ingalls: Geographic Determinism and Kansas.” Midwest Quarterly
6 (April 1965): 285-91.
___. “John James Ingalls: The Sumner Years.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
33 (Winter 1967): 409-42.
___. “The Kansas Alliance vs. ‘Mr. Republican’: The Case for the Accused.” Kansas Quarterly
1 (Fall 1969): 40-48.
___. “The Platte, The Plains and the Peak: Grand Theory and Local History.” Great Plains Journal
8 (Fall 1968): 1-15.
___. Senator John James Ingalls: Kansas’ Iridescent Republican
. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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