James Strong (politician)

James Strong (born 1783 in Windham , Connecticut , † August 8, 1847 in Chester , New Jersey ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1819 and 1821 and between 1823 and 1831 .

Career

James Strong was born in Windham during the last year of the War of Independence . He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington ( Vermont ) in 1806 . Then he moved to Hudson, New York. Politically, he belonged to the Federalist Party at that time . In the congressional elections of 1818 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Philip J. Schuyler on March 4, 1819 . He retired from the after March 3, 1821 Congress of. In 1822 he ran for a seat in Congress in the eighth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded Richard McCarty on March 4, 1823 . He was re-elected three times in a row and then left Congress after March 3, 1831. As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825–1829), his political affiliation changed initially to the Adams-Clay Federalists ( 18th Congress ), then to the Adams faction ( 19th and 20th Congress ) and finally to the Anti-Jacksonian Group ( 21st Congress ). As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Territories (19th and 20th Congresses). Strong died in Chester on August 8, 1847.

James Strong in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)