Julius L. Strong

Julius Levi Strong ( born November 8, 1828 in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut, † September 7, 1872 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. From 1869 to 1872 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Julius Strong attended Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut ) and the Union College in Schenectady (New York). After studying law at the National Law School in New York State and its made ​​in 1853 admitted to the bar he began in Hartford to work in his new profession.

Since 1852, he was politically active. This year Strong was first elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In 1853 he was a member of the State Senate in 1855 and again deputy in the House of Representatives. Strong was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the years 1864 and 1865 he worked as a prosecutor.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Strong was the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard D. Hubbard on March 4, 1869. In 1870 he was confirmed in his mandate, he was able to exert so until his death on September 7, 1872. During his time in Congress, the 15th Amendment was passed, which extended the right to vote to former male slaves and ethnic minorities. Following a special election Strongs parliamentary mandate fell to Joseph R. Hawley.