Arthur B. Ingram, Inghram or Ingraham was a farmer, originally from Tyler County in what was then

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Legislative service

Ingram (as he was then known) served five one-year terms in the

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representing Tyler County: 1815–1816, 1816–1817, 1826–1827, 1827-1828 and 1828–1829. His sister Sarah was the mother of Arthur Ingram Boreman, later first Governor of West Virginia.

Moving on

He moved to

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, and then to the Wisconsin Territory and served in the

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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

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in 1838. Iowa Territory was created July 4, 1838. His fourth daughter and eighth child, Margaret Fee Ingraham, married W. W. Chapman.Nolan, Frederick W. ''The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History'' Revised Edition with a New Foreword by the Author and An Addendum with Corrections. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 2009; p. 451

References

19th-century American politicians Farmers from Virginia Farmers from Iowa Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature People from Des Moines County, Iowa People from Tyler County, West Virginia Boreman family {{Wisconsin-politician-stub