Samuel Williams Inge

Samuel Williams Inge (February 22, 1817 – June 10, 1868) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.

Samuel Williams Inge
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Alabama's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851
Preceded byWilliam Winter Payne
Succeeded byWilliam R. Smith
Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
In office
1844-1845
Personal details
Born
Samuel Williams Inge

(1817-02-22)February 22, 1817
Warren County, North Carolina
DiedJune 10, 1868(1868-06-10) (aged 51)
San Francisco, California
Political partyDemocratic

Early life

Samuel Williams Inge was born on February 22, 1817 in Warren County, North Carolina. He moved to Greene County, Alabama, attended the public schools, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar.

Career

Inge commenced practice in Livingston, Alabama in Sumter County, Alabama.

He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1844 and 1845. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. He served from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851. During the Thirty-first Congress, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia. He participated in a duel with Edward Stanly, a Representative from North Carolina, in Bladensburg near Washington, D.C., but neither was seriously injured.

He resumed the practice of law and was appointed by President Franklin Pierce as a United States attorney for the northern district of California on April 1, 1853. Samuel Williams Inge led the California delegation to the 1856 National Democratic Convention in Cincinnati, casting all of California's votes for James Buchanan to be President and for the Democratic party to endorse the establishment of a safe and speedy communication throughout California between the East and West Coasts.[1]

Death

Inge died in San Francisco, California on June 10, 1868. He was originally interred at Mount Calvary Cemetery before being moved to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.[2]

References
  1. Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention Held in Cincinnati June 2-6, 1856
  2. Samuel Williams Inge (1817–1868) – Find A Grave Memorial
  • United States Congress. "Samuel Williams Inge (id: I000013)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
District inactive		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Alabama's 4th congressional district
March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851		 Succeeded by
William Russell Smith



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