Ingalls << IHNG guhlz >>, John James (1833-1900), was an American editor, lawyer, and statesman. He became a Republican United States senator from Kansas in 1873, and served for 18 years. Ingalls, though not a prominent statesman, was an effective writer and orator, and excelled in descriptive writing.
Ingalls was born on Dec. 29, 1833, in Middleton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams College in 1855. He moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1858. He died on Aug. 16, 1900.
In 1905, a marble statue of Ingalls was installed in Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to represent Kansas. A bronze statue of the American aviator Amelia Earhart replaced the Ingalls statue in 2022.
