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 ServingwithJeremiah Smith Jr. and Joseph B. Teas | |
Preceded by | District established |
Succeeded by | District abolished |
Member of the VirginiaHouseofDelegates 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]