Arthur B. Ingram | |
Office: | President of the Council of the |
Term Start: | November 6, 1837 |
Term End: | July 4, 1838 |
Predecessor: | Henry S. Baird |
Successor: | William Bullen |
Office1: | Member of the Council of the for Des Moines County |
Term Start1: | October 25, 1836 |
Term End1: | July 4, 1838 |
Alongside1: | Jeremiah Smith Jr. |
Predecessor1: | District established |
Successor1: | District abolished |
State2: | Virginia |
State Delegate2: | Virginia |
District2: | Tyler County |
Term Start2: | 1826 |
Term End2: | 1829 |
Term Start3: | 1815 |
Term End3: | 1817 |
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]