Jonathan Ingersoll (April 16, 1747 – January 12, 1823) was a Connecticut politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ingersoll was born on April 16, 1747, in Ridgefield in what was then called the Province of Connecticut, a part of British America.
[7] On September 16, 1793, he was elected as a member representing his state at-large in the United States House of Representatives, by a special election (to replace Congressman-elect Benjamin Huntington who had become a Judge).
[9] Ingersoll was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the State Connecticut, and twenty-ninth overall, being elected to the office annually from 1816 to 1822, and serving until his death in 1823.
Through his son Ralph, he was the grandfather of seven, including John Van den Heuvel Ingersoll (1815–1846), a Yale educated lawyer who edited a political paper in Ohio and served as secretary of the Indian Commission,[16] Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903),[17] who was a member of Congress from Connecticut and married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of U.S. Representative Zadock Pratt,[18] and Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), who served as Governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1877 and married Virginia Gregory, the daughter of Admiral Francis Gregory.