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William Marshall Inge

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William Marshall Inge
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 10th district
In office
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byEbenezer J. Shields
Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
In office
1840
1844-1845
Personal details
Born1802 (1802)
Granville County, North Carolina
Died1846 (aged 43–44)
Livingston, Alabama
Political partyJacksonian
Profession
  • lawyer
  • politician

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

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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

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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

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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.[6]

Death

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Thomas M. Owen, Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol. 3 (1921).
  2. ^ "William Marshall Inge". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  3. ^ Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 3, H-K edited by William S. Powell
  4. ^ "William Marshall Inge". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  5. ^ Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929, By Paul M. Pruitt Jr., page 131
  6. ^ "Inge, William Marshall | NCpedia".
  7. ^ Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama, page 184
  8. ^ "William Marshall Inge". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
District created
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 10th congressional district

1833–1835
Succeeded by