Editing Hubert Ingraham (section)

==Youth and early career==

Ingraham was born 4 August 1947 in Pine Ridge, [[Grand Bahama]].<ref name="parlbio">{{cite web |title=The Bahamas Government |url=http://bahamasnet.com/government/w.houseofassembly6.html |date=7 May 2001 |access-date=11 July 2024 |archive-date=7 May 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010507074544/http://bahamasnet.com/government/w.houseofassembly6.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He is the son of Jerome Ingraham, a [[stevedore]], and Isabella La-Roda (née Cornish). He grew up in [[Coopers Town]], [[Abaco Islands|Abaco]] and began his education at Coopers Town Public School, later attending the Southern Senior School and the [[Government High School, Nassau|Government High School]] Evening Institute in Nassau.

Ingraham studied law in Nassau. He was called to the Bahamas Bar in December 1972 and eventually became senior partner in the law firm of [[Christie, Ingraham and Co.]] He entered front-line politics in 1975, when he was elected to the National General Council of the then ruling Progressive Liberal Party. He previously served as a member of the Air Transport Licensing Authority and Chairman of the Real Property Tax Tribunal.

Following brief employment in the accounting departments of Owens-Illinois Sugar Mill Company in Abaco and The Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation and the Chase Manhattan Bank in Nassau, Ingraham became an articled law clerk in the Chambers of McKinney Bancroft and Hughes.