Jared Ingersoll was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
22 Facts About Jared Ingersoll
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Jared Ingersoll was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Constitution.
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Jared Ingersoll served as DeWitt Clinton's running mate in the 1812 election, but Clinton and Ingersoll were defeated by James Madison and Elbridge Gerry.
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In 1778, having committed himself to the cause of American independence, Jared Ingersoll returned to Philadelphia and won election to the Continental Congress.
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Jared Ingersoll became convinced of the need for a stronger national government than what was provided by the Articles of Confederation, and he was a delegate to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention.
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Jared Ingersoll served as the Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1791 to 1800 and from 1811 to 1816.
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Jared Ingersoll served as the United States Attorney for Pennsylvania and as the city solicitor for Philadelphia.
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Jared Ingersoll argued the cases of Chisholm v Georgia and Hylton v United States, two of the first cases to appear before the United States Supreme Court.
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Jared Ingersoll affiliated with the Federalist Party and was deeply disturbed by Thomas Jefferson's victory in the 1800 presidential election.
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Jared Ingersoll became an early and ardent proponent of constitutional reform, although, like a number of his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention, he believed this reform could be achieved by a simple revision of the Articles.
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Jared Ingersoll wrote an account of Isaac Barre's speech made during the Parliamentary debate on the Stamp Act to Connecticut Governor Thomas Fitch.
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Jared Ingersoll spent more than eighteen months in Paris, where he formed an acquaintance with Benjamin Franklin.
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Shortly after the colonies declared their independence, Jared Ingersoll renounced his family's views, made his personal commitment to the cause of independence, and returned home.
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In 1781 Jared Ingersoll married Elizabeth Pettit and in that same year was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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At the Convention, Jared Ingersoll was counted among those who favored revision of the existing Articles of Confederation, but in the end he joined with the majority and supported a plan for a new federal government.
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Once the new national government was created, Jared Ingersoll returned to the law.
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Jared Ingersoll served as attorney general of Pennsylvania, as Philadelphia's city solicitor, and as US district attorney for Pennsylvania.
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Jared Ingersoll made his contributions to the Constitutional process through several Supreme Court cases that defined various basic points in Constitutional law during the beginning of the new republic.
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In representing Hylton in Hylton v US, Ingersoll was involved in the first legal challenge to the constitutionality of an act of Congress.
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Jared Ingersoll served as counsel in various cases that helped clarify constitutional issues concerning the jurisdiction of federal courts and US relations with other sovereign nations, including defending Senator William Blount of Tennessee against impeachment.
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Jared Ingersoll died in Philadelphia at age 73; interment was in the Old Pine Street Church Cemetery, Fourth and Pine Streets.
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Ingersoll Street in Madison, Wisconsin, and Liberty ship SS Jared Ingersoll are named after him.