William Marshall Inge Explained

William Marshall Inge
State1:Tennessee
District1:10th
Term Start1:March 4, 1833
Term End1:March 3, 1835
Predecessor1:District created
Successor1:Ebenezer J. Shields
Office2:Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Term2:1840
1844-1845
Party:Jacksonian
Birth Date: 1802
Birth Place:Granville County, North Carolina
Death Place:Livingston, Alabama
Profession:lawyerpolitician
Relatives:Pete Buttigieg 4th great-grandson

William Marshall Inge (1802–1846) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's tenth district in the United States House of Representatives in the 23rd Congress.

Biography

Inge was born in Granville County, North Carolina in 1802. His parents were Richard Inge Sr., a Revolutionary War soldier,[1] and Sally Johnson. He attended the schools of North Carolina, moved to Tennessee, and continued his schooling. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law.[2]

Career

William Marshall Inge's career included work as a lawyer, a Superior Court Judge, a state politician (in both Tennessee and Alabama), and a national politician. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1828 - 1833.[3] He was then elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1835.[4] He served as a Tennessee congressman alongside future U.S. President James Polk and frontiersman Davy Crockett.

Having moved to Livingston, Alabama in 1836, Inge resumed the practice of his profession. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1840, 1844, and 1845. While a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, he argued against the death penalty.[5]

Personal life

He married Susan Marr of Fayetteville, Tennessee. They had six children: Sally, Mary Turner (she married John T. Loudon who served with an Arkansas Union Infantry regiment during the Civil War), Eliza Jane, John, Susan, and William, Jr. Inge.[6]

Death

Inge died of heart disease[7] in Livingston, Alabama in 1846 and is interred at Livingston Cemetery. He was the uncle of U.S. Representative Samuel Williams Inge.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Thomas M. Owen, Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol. 3 (1921).
  2. Web site: William Marshall Inge. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. February 28, 2013.
  3. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 3, H-K edited by William S. Powell
  4. Web site: William Marshall Inge. Govtrack US Congress. February 28, 2013.
  5. Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929, By Paul M. Pruitt Jr., page 131
  6. Web site: Inge, William Marshall | NCpedia.
  7. Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama, page 184
  8. Web site: William Marshall Inge. The Political Graveyard. February 28, 2013.