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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaSamuel Williams INGE
(1817-1868)
INGE, Samuel Williams,
(nephew of William Marshall Inge), a Representative from Alabama;
born in Warren County, N.C., on February 22, 1817; moved to Greene
County, Ala.; attended the public schools; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in
Livingston, Sumter County, Ala.; member of the Alabama house of
representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3,
1851); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-first
Congress); participated in a duel with Edward Stanly, a
Representative from North Carolina, in Bladensburg, near
Washington, D.C., but neither was seriously injured; resumed the
practice of law; was appointed by President Franklin Pierce a
United States attorney for the northern district of California on
April 1, 1853; died in San Francisco, Calif., on June 10, 1868;
interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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