James S. T. Stranahan

James Samuel Thomas Stranahan ( born April 25, 1808 in Peterboro, New York, † September 3, 1898 in Saratoga Springs, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, Josselyn son of Lynda and Samuel Stranahan was born about four years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Peterboro. He attended community schools and Cazenovia Seminary. In 1832 he founded the Town Florence in Oneida County. He was in the lumber business and is postmaster of Florence. Then he sat in 1838 in the New York State Assembly. Two years later he moved to Newark. There he worked in railway construction. In 1845 he moved to Brooklyn, where he was elected alderman three years later. Politically, he was a member of the opposition party. In the congressional elections of 1854 Stranahan in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas W. Cumming on March 4, 1853. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1856, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1857 the Congress of. On January 1, 1857, he was appointed to the Metropolitan Police Commission. He appeared in the presidential elections of 1860 and 1888 as a Republican elector ( Presidential Elector ). Then he was president of the Board of Trustees of Prospect Park in Brooklyn and treasurer of the Brooklyn Bridge, which he inaugurated on 28 May 1884. He died on 3 September 1898 in his summer home in Saratoga Springs and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Stranahan was married twice, married 1837-1866 with Marrianne Fitch and then with Clara C. Harrison. From his first marriage two children were born, Fitch J. and Mary Stranahan Stranahan.