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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutColin Macrae INGERSOLL
(1819-1903)
INGERSOLL, Colin Macrae,
(son of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll), a Representative from Connecticut;
born in New Haven, Conn., March 11, 1819; pursued academic studies
and later attended Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; was graduated
from the law department of Yale College in 1839; was admitted to
the bar in the same year and commenced practice in New Haven,
Conn.; clerk of the State senate in 1843; secretary of the legation
at St. Petersburg, by appointment of President Polk, in 1847 and
1848 and was Acting Chargé d’Affaires in 1848; elected
as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses
(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); resumed the practice of law;
adjutant general of Connecticut 1867-1871; died in New Haven,
Conn., September 13, 1903; interment in the Grove Street
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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