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NAME: Robert Ingersoll
OCCUPATION: Political Leader
BIRTH DATE: August 11, 1833
DEATH DATE: July 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH: Dresden, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: Dobbs Ferry, New York
Full Name: Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Ingersoll was an American politician and orator best known as "the great agnostic" who popularized criticism of the Bible and scientific rationalism.

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Robert Ingersoll was an American politician and orator best known as "the great agnostic" who popularized criticism of the Bible and scientific rationalism. Ingersoll was a lawyer before he served in the American Civil War, turning to politics in 1867 as Illinois attorney general. He was nationally known as a witty lecturer on exposing the orthodox superstitions of the time.

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