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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingalls , John James 1833 - (search)
Ingalls, John James 1833-
Lawyer; born in Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; graduated at Williams College in 1855, and was admitted to the bar in 1857.
He went
John James Ingalls. to Atchison, Kan., in 1858, and became a member of the Wyandotte Convention in 1859, secretary of the territorial council in 1869, and secretary of the State Senate in 1861.
He was State Senator in 1862, and in the same year was defeated as Republican candidate for lieutenantgovernor.
In 1873-91 he was a United States Senator, and in 1887-91 was president pro tem. of the Senate.
On retiring from the Senate he engaged in journalism and lecturing till his death, in Las Vegas, N. M., Aug. 16, 1900.
Eulogy on Senator Hill.
On Jan. 23, 1882, he delivered the following eulogy on the occasion of the death of Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill, of Georgia:
Mr. President,—Ben. Hill has gone to the undiscovered country.
Whether his journey thither was but one step across an imperceptible frontier, or w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pomeroy , Samuel Clarke 1816 - (search)
Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke 1816-
Legislator; born in Southampton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1816; educated at Amherst; elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1852; led a colony to Kansas in 1852, locating in Lawrence, but afterwards removed to Atchison.
He was a member of the Free-State convention which met in Lawrence, Kan., in 1859, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1861 and 1867, but failed of re-election in 1873 on account of charges of bribery, which were afterwards examined by a committee of the State legislature, which found them not sustained.
Mr. Pomeroy was nominated for Vice-President of the United States on the American ticket in 1880.