Sterling P. Strong

Sterling Price Strong ( * August 17, 1862 at Jefferson City, Missouri, † March 28, 1936 in Dallas, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1871, Sterling Strong came with his parents in the Montague County, Texas, where he attended the public schools. In the meantime he studied until 1884 at Eastman 's National Business College in Poughkeepsie (New York). Between 1884 and 1888, and again from 1898 to 1904 Strong served as county clerk in Montague County. In between, he was in 1889 Clerk to the Senate of Texas; 1889 to 1892, he served as clerk in Hale County. Between 1892 and 1898, and later from 1911 to 1932 he was a traveling salesman. He was also a 1908-1911 clerk in the National Bank of Bowie.

Politically, Strong joined the Democratic Party, whose State Board in Texas he served 1900-1902. In 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Texas. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the newly refurbished 20th electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1934, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. At that time there the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Sterling Strong withdrew from politics. He died on March 28, 1936 in Dallas, where he was also buried.