Political Career
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1806 to 1808. After his service in the legislature Ingham was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1813 to until July 6, 1818. He easily trounced his Federalist opponents in the first two elections and had no opposition at all in 1816. He resigned from Congress in 1818 due to his wife's ill health. He was appointed the Prothonotary (Chief Clerk, Notary and Registrar of the Court) of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania after leaving Congress. In 1819 Rebecca Dodd Ingham died.
Ingham served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1820
In 1822 Ingham married Deborah Hall of Salem, New Jersey. They would become the parents of three children.
Also in 1822 Ingham was elected to Congress where he would serve until 1829.
During the 13th Congress he was chair of the United States House Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims, during the 14th, 15th, 19th and 20th Congresses, he was chair of the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and was also chair of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department during the 15th Congress.
Ingham served as the ninth Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from March 6, 1829, to June 21, 1831.
The inauguration of President Jackson coincided with the opening of an industrial expansion in the United States and was a symbol of a new government dedicated to the common man—a new Jacksonian democracy.
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