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'''Vincent Alfred Kura Teratu Ingram''' (10 July 1946 – 6 June 2010) was a Cook Islands politician and Cabinet Minister.
Ingram was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and initially raised in Samoa and then Rarotonga.<ref name=cinbio>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/June/Wed09/other.htm#1006080606 |title=Ingram to be farewelled today |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=2010-06-08 |access-date=2010-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617223024/http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/June/Wed09/other.htm#1006080606 |archive-date=17 June 2010}}</ref> He was educated at Avarua Side School, and then Mt Albert Grammar School in Auckland for his secondary education.<ref name=cinbio/> He studied law, and was accepted to the bar in New Zealand in 1974, and the Cook Islands in 1975.<ref name=cinbio/>
Ingram joined the Cook Islands Democratic Party in the 1970s, and along with Norman George was active in fundraising for the party in New Zealand.<ref name=ngrem>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/June/Wed09/other.htm#1006090710 |title=Vincent Ingram as I remember him |author=Norman George |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=2010-06-09 |access-date=2010-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617223024/http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/June/Wed09/other.htm#1006080606 |archive-date=17 June 2010}}</ref> He was elected to the Cook Islands Parliament in the 1978 election, and served in the administration of Tom Davis as Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Police and the Minister of Justice.<ref name=cinbio/> After falling out with Davis in 1983,<ref name=ngrem/> he crossed the floor, and served as Leader of the Opposition between 1984 and 1986.<ref name=cinbio/> He was subsequently leader of the breakaway Democratic Tumu Party, which supported the Cook Islands Party administration of Geoffrey Henry.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340328540/view?sectionId=nla.obj-344617185&partId=nla.obj-340337751#page/n12/mode/1up |title=Henry Re-elected After Five years |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=59 |issue=15 |page=13 |date=1 February 1989 |access-date=10 July 2020 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Cook Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1988 to 30 June 1989 |author1=Ron Crocombe |author2=Marjorie Crocombe |journal=The Contemporary Pacific |volume=2 |issue=1 |year=1990 |url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/8432/1/v2n1-163-166-politicalrev.pdf}}</ref> He was Deputy Speaker of the House from 1989 to 1993.<ref name=cinbio/>
In 1993, Ingram became the Cook Islands' first High Commissioner to Australia.<ref name=cinbio/> He retired to Auckland in 1996.
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