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INGE, Samuel Williams (1817-1868)

Democrat of Alabama

4th congressional district

Served in House 1847-1851

Total roll-call votes cast: 803

Biography

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, 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.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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