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INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN (1833—1899)

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INGERSOLL, See also:ROBERT See also:GREEN (1833—1899) , See also:American lawyer and lecturer, was See also:born in See also:Dresden, New See also:York, on the 11th of See also:August 1833. His See also:father was a Congregational See also:minister, who removed to See also:Wisconsin in 1843 and to See also:Illinois in 1845. Robert, who had received a See also:good See also:common-school See also:education, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1854, and practised See also:law with success in Illinois. See also:Late in 1861, during the See also:Civil See also:War, he organized a See also:cavalry See also:regiment, of which he was See also:colonel, until captured at See also:Lexington, See also:Tennessee, on the 18th of See also:December 1862, by the Confederate cavalry under See also:General N. B. See also:Forrest. He was paroled, waited in vain to be exchanged, and in See also:June 1863 resigned from the service. He was See also:attorney-general of Illinois in 1867—1869, and in 1876 his speech in the Republican See also:National See also:Convention, naming See also:James G. See also:Blaine for the Presidential See also:candidate, won him a national reputation as a public See also:speaker. As a lawyer he distinguished himself particularly as counsel for the defendants in the " See also:Star-Route See also:Fraud " trials. He was most widely known, however, for his public lectures attacking the See also:Bible, and his See also:anti-See also:Christian views were an obstacle to his See also:political See also:advancement. Ingersoll was an eloquent rhetorician rather than a logical reasoner.

He died at Dobbs See also:

Ferry, N.Y., on the 21st of See also:July 1899. His See also:principal lectures and speeches were published under the titles: The Gods and Other Lectures (1876); Some Mistakes of See also:Moses (1879); See also:Prose Poems (1884); See also:Great Speeches (1887). His lectures, entitled " The Bible," " Ghosts," and " See also:Foundations of Faith," attracted particular See also:attention. His See also:complete See also:works were published in 12 vols. in New York in 1900.

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