Stephen Strong

Stephen Strong ( born October 11, 1791 in Lebanon, Connecticut, † April 15, 1866 in Watertown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Strong was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in New London County. He moved to New York. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1822, he began practicing. Between 1836 and 1838, and 1844-1847 he was a district attorney in Tioga County. He was judge in the 1838 Tioga County - a post he held until 1843. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress Strong was the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Meade Smith Purdy on March 4, 1845. He retired after March 3, 1847 from the Congress. During his time Congress he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the U.S. State Department.

After his time he took Congress in Owego his activities as a lawyer. Between 1855 and 1859 he was again judge in Tioga County. Strong moved in 1861 to Watertown in Jefferson County, where he continued to work as a lawyer. He died there about ten months after the end of the civil war.