James Strong (U.S. politician)

James Strong (* 1783 in Windham, Connecticut; † August 8, 1847 in Chester, New Jersey) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1819-1821 and 1823-1831 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Strong was born in the last year of the War of Independence in Windham. He graduated in 1806 from the University of Vermont in Burlington ( Vermont). Then he moved to Hudson ( New York). Politically he belonged at that time to the Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Philip J. Schuyler on March 4, 1819. He retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress. In 1822 he ran in the eighth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1823, succeeding Richard McCarty. He was re-elected three times in a row and then retired after March 3, 1831 the Congress of. As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) changed his political affiliation the beginning of the Adams - Clay Federalist ( 18th Congress ), then the Adams Group ( 19th and 20th Congress ), and finally to the anti - Jacksonian fraction ( 21 Congress ). As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Territories ( 19th and 20th Congress ). Strong died on August 8, 1847 in Chester.