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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

John James Ingalls

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John James Ingalls
Age: 66 †
Born: 1833
Born: December 29
Died: 1900
Died: August 16
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
Middleton
Massachusetts
John J. Ingalls
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