Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782–1862)

American statesman, born in Philadelphia, on the 3rd of October 1782. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, and was attached to the United States embassy to France. From 1813 to 1815 he was in Congress, and then became United States District Attorney, which office he held till 1829. Shortly afterward he served in the legislature, and in 1837 became secretary of legation to Prussia. From 1841 to 1847 he was again in Congress, and distinguished himself as a Democratic leader. He wrote a Historical Sketch of the Second War with Great Britain, and some other works, poetical and historical. He died in Philadelphia on the 14th of May 1862. See also “A Sketch of Jefferson.”