Wallace Ingalls (November 22, 1859 – February 3, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician. Ingalls was born in the town of

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, on November 22, 1859. Ingalls received his law degree from

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. He was the district attorney of Walworth County, Wisconsin from 1892 to 1896 and was a

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. Ingalls practiced law in

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, then in

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and later moved to

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and practiced law there. He was also a farmer. Ingalls served in the

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in 1909, 1921, and from 1925 to 1929. Ingalls died of a heart attack in 1936 at his home in the Town of Linn, in Walworth County, Wisconsin.

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