William Strong (judge)

William Strong ( born May 6, 1808 in Somers, Connecticut; † August 19, 1895 in Lake Minnewassa, New York ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and lawyer who represented, among others, the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives and between 1870 and 1880 judge at the United States Supreme Court was ( U.S. Supreme Court ).

Life

After visiting the Munson Academy, he studied at Yale University and graduated in 1828 from. He then worked as a teacher in New Haven and studied law wrong. After his legal approval in Pennsylvania he settled down in 1832 as an attorney in Reading.

Later, he began a political career in the Democratic Party and was on 4 March 1847 to the March 3, 1851 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania, whose ninth congressional district he represented. During his deputies work, he was also from March 1849 to March 1851 Chairman of the Election Committee (U.S. House Committee on Elections ).

In 1850 he gave up for reelection and instead took after his retirement from parliament his career as a lawyer to. In 1857 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and belonged to this until 1868, before he subsequently worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia two years.

On February 7, 1870, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant Strong, who was now a member of the Republican Party nominated for Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and thus the successor of Robert Cooper Grier. The Office of the Associate Justice, he held more than ten years, until his resignation on December 1880 and his replacement by William Burnham Woods 14.

In 1876 he was among the members of a fifteen -member Electoral Commission, which was composed of equal parts of five members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide the dispute in the U.S. presidential election of 1876. The Election Commission decided on March 2, finally, that Rutherford B. Hayes, the three southern states ( and thus the overall election against Samuel J. Tilden ) had won ( it voted the respective party members each for their candidate ). On March 5, 1876 Hayes was sworn in as the new president.

During his affiliation with the U.S. Supreme Court, he was, among other things, in March 1880 the decision to process Strauder v. West Virginia, according to the general exclusion of blacks from juries is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

After retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court, he was once again working as a lawyer. Strong, who had seven children from two marriages, was a cousin of Democratic New York Congressman Theron Rudd Strong and was buried after his death at the Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.