Grand Old Partisan salutes John Ingalls, born December 29th 1833. The ambitious attorney relocated to Kansas from Massachusetts at age twenty-four. Within a year, he was elected a member of its constitutional convention. His leadership ensured that slavery would be banned. It was this young Republican who authored the state motto — Ad Astra per Aspera (to the stars through difficulties) — and designed the state seal.
Ingalls was secretary of the territorial council in 1860 and secretary of the state senate in 1861. During the Civil War, while serving as the militia's judge advocate, he won election to the state senate and edited a newspaper, Freedom's Champion.
In 1872, the legislature elected him to first of three U.S. Senate terms. Six years, he was its president pro tempore. Receiving his vote were the 1875 Civil Rights Act and other GOP achievements. Until replaced by Amelia Earhart in 2022, there was a statue of John Ingalls at the U.S. Capitol.
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