Arthur B. Ingram | |
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President of the Council of the Wisconsin Territory | |
In office November 6, 1837 – July 4, 1838 | |
Preceded by | Henry S. Baird |
Succeeded by | William Bullen |
Member of the Council of the Wisconsin Territory for Des Moines County | |
In office October 25, 1836 – July 4, 1838 Serving with Jeremiah Smith Jr. and Joseph B. Teas | |
Preceded by | District established |
Succeeded by | District abolished |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Tyler County district | |
In office 1826–1829 | |
In office 1815–1817 | |
Personal details | |
Relatives | Arthur I. Boreman (nephew) |
Arthur B. Ingram, Inghram or Ingraham was a farmer, originally from Tyler County in what was then Virginia.
Ingram (as he was then known) served five one-year terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Tyler County: 1815–1816, 1816–1817, 1826–1827, 1827-1828 and 1828–1829.[1] His sister Sarah was the mother of Arthur Ingram Boreman, later first Governor of West Virginia.
He moved to Illinois, and then to the Wisconsin Territory[2] and served in the 1st Wisconsin Territorial Assembly from 1836 to 1838 representing the southern part of what would soon become the Iowa Territory in the Territorial Council (equivalent of a state senate). He was elected President of the council for the 2nd (1837) session of the legislature, and for a subsequent special session in 1838.[3] Iowa Territory was created July 4, 1838.
His fourth daughter and eighth child, Margaret Fee Ingraham, married W. W. Chapman.[4]