James G. Strong

James George Strong ( born April 23 1870 in Dwight, Livingston County, Illinois, † January 11, 1938 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Between 1876 and 1879 James Strong attended primary school in his birthplace of Dwight and from 1879 to 1880 a mission school in South Dakota. After that he went to 1887 in the public schools of the City of St. Marys, Kansas. Strong finished his education between 1887 and 1889 with a degree at the Baker University in Baldwin City.

In 1891 he moved to Blue Rapids in the State of Kansas. There he was active in the real estate market and in the insurance industry. He also studied law until 1895. Then he started in Blue Rapids also work as a lawyer. During this time, he expanded his business interests on trade and agriculture. Between 1896 and 1911, Strong was a legal representative of the town of Blue Rapids. In 1905 he founded the Blue Rapids Telephone Co. and 1912 the Marshall County Power & Light Co. Between 1911 and 1912 he was deputy district attorney in Marshall County.

Politically Strong member of the Republican Party, whose Republican National Convention he attended between 1912 and 1928 as a delegate. From 1913 to 1916 he was also a member of the school board of Blue Rapids and from 1916 to 1917 he was district attorney in Marshall County. In 1918 he was selected in the fifth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Guy T. Helvering of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1919. After a six-time re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 a total of seven legislative sessions. This period saw the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage, the Prohibition Act and the beginning of the world economic crisis. From 1923 to 1931 Strong was chairman of the committee that dealt with war-related claims to the federal government. In 1932, he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After the end of his time in Congress was James Strong deputy treasurer of the Home Owners Loan Corporation. A post he held until his death on January 11, 1938 in the German capital Washington.