US Congressman. He was born one of three children, Charles Jared Ingersoll (later a United States Representative) was born in 1782, and Edward Ingersoll was born in 1790, to Continental Congressman Jared Ingersoll and his wife, Elizabeth Pettit Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated locally and pursued an academic classical course, before attending the prestigious Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where he graduated from 1804. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and then commenced to practicing law in his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On September 22, 1813, he married Ann Wilcocks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the couple would have three children together James Ingersoll was born in 1814, Mary Wilcocks Ingersoll was born in 1816, and Joseph Reed Ingersoll was born in 1823). He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected as an Ant-Jacksonian Candidate to represent the Twenty-Fourth Congress in 1835. A Member of the Whig Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 2nd District (Twenty-Fourth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1835 to 1837. He declined to be a Candidate for renomination in 1836. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1837, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative John Sergeant and United States Representative George Washington Toland. He then resumed his practice of law for a couple of years. He then ran for another seat in the United States Congress and was elected as a Whig to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative John Sergeant to represent the Twenty-Eight Congress, Twenty-Ninth Congress, and Thirtieth Congress in 1841. A Member of the Whig Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 2nd District (Twenty-Eighth Congress, Twenty-Ninth Congress, and Thirtieth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1841 to 1849. While serving in the United States Congress, he also served as Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary representing the Thirtieth Congress and during that time he was an advocate and a firm supporter of attorney and statesman Henry Clay of Kentucky. He was also a defender of Henry Clay's tariff of 1842. He declined to accept the nomination as a Candidate for reelection to the Thirty-First Congress in 1848. After his second term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1849, he was succeeded in office by United States Congressman Joseph Ripley Chandler. He was lastly appointed personally by then-President Millard Fillmore to the post of United States Minister to Britain and served in that capacity from August 21, 1853, to August 23, 1853. He then retired from politics and returned to private life. A lifelong Episcopalian, he was awarded an honorary LL.D (or Doctor of Laws) from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1836, and an honorary D.C.L. (or Doctor of Civil Law) from Oxford University in Oxford, England, in 1845. He was also an author whose works include, "Secession, A Folly And A Crime," "De Navibus et Naulo," "De Assecuratione," and "Memoir Of Samuel Breck." He passed away on February 20, 1868, at the age of 81, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard in that city. His wife Ann passed away on May 28, 1831, and she is buried with her husband. His other prominent family members besides his father Jared Ingersoll and his brother Charles Jared Ingersoll, includes, being the granduncle of Charles Edward Ingersoll, first cousin once removed of Jonathan Ingersoll, a second cousin of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and Charles Anthony Ingersoll, second cousin once removed of Colin Macrae Ingersoll and Charles Roberts Ingersoll, second cousin twice removed of George Pratt Ingersoll, third cousin once removed of Laman Ingersoll, third cousin twice removed of Ebon Clarke Ingersoll and Robert Green Ingersoll, third cousin thrice removed of Charles Phelps and John Carter Ingersoll, a fourth cousin of Elijah Hunt Mills, a fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan Brace, Elisha Hunt Allen and William Dean Kellogg.