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John James Ingalls
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John James Ingalls (December 29, 1833 – August 16, 1900) was an American Republican politician who served as a United States senator from Kansas.
Quotes
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.
Attributed
Ad astra per aspera.
Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
State motto of Kansas, reported to have been devised by Ingalls.
External links
Category:Members of the United States Senate
Category:1833 births
Category:1900 deaths
Category:Abolitionists
Category:Politicians from Massachusetts
Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians