CSA Congressman. He was born one of nine children (Henry Ingram was born in 1803, William Ingram was born in 1805, Jonathan Ingram was born in 1808, Harriet Ingram was born in 1809, Polly Ingram was born in 1811, Joanna Kellogg Ingram was born in 1813, Lucy Ingram was born in 1815, and Ira Ingram was born in 1818), to Jonathan Ingram and Polly Underwood Ingram in Marlboro, Vermont. He was educated locally and attended school in his hometown of Marlboro, Vermont. He then attended the prestigious Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1831. He relocated to the State of New York and taught school there until 1836. On August 19, 1848, he married Sarah Ann Jarrett in Harris, Georgia, and they had one daughter together, Mary Jane Ingram was born in 1849. He then studied law and began his practice of law with his law partner Martin J. Crawford in Harris County, Georgia, in 1853. His wife Sarah passed away on August 5, 1855, at the age of 25. He then married Elizabeth Lewis between 1855 and 1860 in Georgia and the couple would have six children together (Annie Abercrombie Ingram was born in 1862, Thomas Lewis Ingram was born in 1864, Mattie Freeny Ingram was born in 1865, Bessie Bell Ingram was born in 1866 but she died in 1868, another Bessie was born in 1870, and Jennie Ingram was born in 1874). He later relocated to Columbus, Georgia, and while there he served as a Judge of the City Court of Columbus, Georgia. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he was too old to serve his country in battle but he did serve as a 'Home Guard' at the time of Wilson's Raid. He was a prominent Confederate politician of the Confederate States Army. He represented the State of Georgia in the First Confederate Congress in 1864, having replaced the noted lawyer, state legislator, and United States Representative Hines Holt, who had resigned the post on March 1, 1863. Following the Civil War, he resumed his practice of law in Columbus, Georgia. He passed away following a brief illness on December 3, 1893, at the age of 83, and was buried in the Linwood Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia. His wife Elizabeth passed away on January 26, 1908, at the age of 79, and was buried with her husband. At the time of his death, he was the oldest lawyer in the State of Georgia and in fifty years of legal practice he never missed a session of the courts.