Randolph Strickland

Randolph Strickland ( born February 4, 1823 in Dansville, Livingston County, New York, † May 5, 1880 in Battle Creek, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Randolph Strickland attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1844 to Michigan, where he worked as a teacher in Ingham County. After studying law and its made ​​in 1849 admitted to the bar he began in DeWitt, Michigan to work in his new profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to St. Johns. From 1852 to 1864 he was a prosecutor in the Clinton County. Politically, Strickland member of the Republican Party. In the years 1861 and 1862 he sat in the Senate from Michigan. During the Civil War he was a 1863-1865 Head of the Military Police ( Provost Marshal ) in the sixth congressional district of his state. In the years 1856 and 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where John C. Frémont and later Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Strickland was in the sixth district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John F. Driggs on March 4, 1869. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1870, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871. At this time there the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was discussed and adopted. After his retirement from the House of Representatives Strickland again worked as a lawyer. He died on 5 May 1880 in Battle Creek and was buried in DeWitt.