Joseph Reed Ingersoll

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Joseph Reed Ingersoll (June 14, 1786 – February 20, 1868) was an American lawyer and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1835 he followed his father (Jared) and his older brother (Charles) to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. House.

He graduated from Princeton College in 1804. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836. He resumed the practice of law.

Ingersoll was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sergeant. He was reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary during the Thirtieth Congress. He declined to accept the nomination as a candidate for reelection in 1848.

He would serve in the Congress in 1835–1837 and again in 1841–1849. In 1852, President Millard Fillmore sent him to the United Kingdom as the U.S. Minister.

He died in Philadelphia in 1868. Interment in St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Churchyard.

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• Joseph Reed Ingersoll at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Horace Binney, James Harper	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1835 - 1837 alongside James Harper	Succeeded by John Sergeant and George Washington Toland
Preceded by John Sergeant	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1841 - 1849 alongside George Washington Toland (1841-1843)	Succeeded by Joseph R. Chandler
Preceded by Abbott Lawrence	U.S. Minister to Britain 1852 – 1853	Succeeded by James Buchanan