Samuel Williams Inge

Samuel Williams Inge (February 22, 1817 – June 10, 1868) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.

Early life

Samuel Williams Inge was born on February 22, 1817 in Warren County, North Carolina. He moved to Greene County, Alabama, attended the public schools, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar.

Career

Inge commenced practice in Livingston, Alabama in Sumter County, Alabama.

He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1844 and 1845. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. He served from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851. During the Thirty-first Congress, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia. He participated in a duel with Edward Stanly, a Representative from North Carolina, in Bladensburg near Washington, D.C., but neither was seriously injured.

He resumed the practice of law and was appointed by President Franklin Pierce as a United States attorney for the northern district of California on April 1, 1853.

Death

Inge died in San Francisco, California on June 10, 1868. He was originally interred at Mount Calvary Cemetery before being moved to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.

External links

• Samuel Williams Inge at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by District inactive	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 4th congressional district March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851	Succeeded by William Russell Smith