Ingersoll, JARED,

Ingersoll, JARED, an American jurist, born in Connecticut in 1749, studied at Yale and in London and Paris, and became a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia. He was a member of congress in 1780–81, was in 1787 a delegate to the convention that framed the Federal constitution, and in 1812 was the Federalist candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States. He was a judge in the district court of Philadelphia at the time of his death, 31st October 1822.—His son, CHARLES JARED, born in Philadelphia, 3d October 1782, sat in congress in 1813–15, and there advocated the principle that ‘free ships make free goods;’ was for fourteen years United States district attorney for Pennsylvania; and was a prominent leader of the Democrats in congress from 1841 to 1847. He died 14th May 1862. He was the author of some poems and a drama, a political satire entitled Inchiquin’s Letters (1810), and an Historical Sketch of the War of 1812 (4 vols. 1845–52).