INGE, Samuel Williams
30th (1847–1849), 31st (1849–1851)
INGE, Samuel Williams, (nephew of William Marshall Inge), a Representative from Alabama; born in Warren County, N.C., on February 22, 1817; moved to Greene County, Ala.; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Livingston, Sumter County, Ala.; member of the Alabama house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-first Congress); participated in a duel with Edward Stanly, a Representative from North Carolina, in Bladensburg, near Washington, D.C., but neither was seriously injured; resumed the practice of law; was appointed by President Franklin Pierce a United States attorney for the northern district of California on April 1, 1853; died in San Francisco, Calif., on June 10, 1868; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Papers: In the Alabama Governor's Administrative Files, 1847-1849, 0.5 cubic foot. Correspondents include S. W. Inge. A container list is available in the repository. The access to original documents is restricted, however, microfilm is accessible.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, "INGE, Samuel Williams," https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/I/INGE,-Samuel-Williams-(I000013)/ (January 21, 2022)