Colin Macrae Ingersoll (March 11, 1819 – September 13, 1903) was a Connecticut attorney, politician, and military leader. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for two terms in the 1850s.[1]
He pursued academic studies in New Haven, and graduated from Trinity College in 1839. Ingersoll was a founding member of the Phi Kappa Society while an undergraduate. This secret society would later become the school’s current chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi. He graduated from Yale Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1841, and practiced in New Haven.[1]
In 1850, Ingersoll was elected as a Democrat to the 32nd United States Congress. He served in Congress from March 4, 1851, was reelected two years later and served in the Thirty-third Congress until March 3, 1855.[1]
After leaving Congress he resumed the practice of law. Ingersoll served as adjutant general of Connecticut from 1867 to 1868 and again from 1870 to 1871.[2]
Personal life
In 1853, Ingersoll married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of Abigail P. (née Watson) Pratt and Zadock Pratt, a U.S. Representative from New York who built the largest tannery in the world at its time and built the town of Prattsville.[5] Their children included:[5]
