James ST Stranahan

James ST Stranahan

Statue of James ST Stranahan in Prospect Park ( Brooklyn )

James Samuel Thomas Stranahan (born April 25, 1808 in Peterboro , New York , † September 3, 1898 in Saratoga Springs , New York) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, son of Lynda Josselyn and Samuel Stranahan, was born in Peterboro about four years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended community schools and the Cazenovia Seminary . In 1832 he founded the town of Florence in Oneida County . He was in the lumber business and was postmaster to Florence. Then he sat in the New York State Assembly in 1838 . Two years later he moved to Newark . There he worked in railway construction. In 1845 he moved to Brooklyn , where he was elected Alderman three years later . Politically, he belonged to the opposition party . In the congressional election of 1854 , Stranahan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded Thomas W. Cumming on March 4, 1853 . He suffered for his re-election bid in 1856 , a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1857 Congress of. On January 1, 1857, he was appointed to the Metropolitan Police Commission . He appeared in the presidential elections of 1860 and 1888 as a Republican elector ( Presidential Elector ). Then he was President of the Board of Trustees of Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Treasurer of the Brooklyn Bridge , which he inaugurated on May 28, 1884. He died on September 3, 1898 in his summer home in Saratoga Springs and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Stranahan was married twice, married to Marrianne Fitch between 1837 and 1866, and then to Clara C. Harrison. His first marriage had two children, Fitch J. Stranahan and Mary Stranahan.

literature

• Mr. Stranahan Dead , The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sep 3, 1898, p. 1.

Web links

• James ST Stranahan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James ST Stranahan in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ For A Statue in Honor of James ST Stranahan , The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p. 6.
2. ↑ Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn Bridge 50th Anniversary Celebration  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ FJ Stranahan's Death ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Dec. 4, 1896, p. 4.