Selah B. Strong

Selah Brewster Strong (born May 1, 1792 in Brookhaven , New York , † November 29, 1872 in Setauket , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1843 and 1845 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Selah Brewster Strong was born in Brookhaven approximately nine years after the War of Independence ended . He received a good education and graduated from Yale College in 1811 . He then studied law and began practicing as a lawyer in New York City after receiving his license . During the British-American War he served as ensign and quartermaster in the 10th Regiment of the Third Brigade of the New York City and County Forces. In 1815 he was promoted first to lieutenant and then to captain . Two years after the end of the war, he spent a year as a Masters at the New York Court of Chancery . He moved back to Brookhaven in 1820. With the exception of nine months in 1830, he served as the District Attorney in Suffolk County between 1821 and 1847 . During this time, on August 14, 1823, he married Cornelia Udall (* 1806), daughter of Prudence Carll and Dr. Richard Udall, and was appointed Judge Advocate in the First Division of the New York State Infantry in 1825 .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1842 Strong was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles A. Floyd on March 4, 1843 . Since he refused to run again in 1844 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1845 . He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He served from June 7, 1847 to January 1, 1860 as a judge on the New York Supreme Court for the second judicial district. Two years after the end of the Civil War , he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly . He died on November 29, 1872 in Setauket and was then buried on his estate.

literature

• Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight : The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass , Vol. 1, 1871, p. 623.
• Weed, Parsons and Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 74, 350, 355 and 382.
• The court through the decades 1847-1997 , pp. 90 and 92.

Web links

• Selah B. Strong in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Selah B. Strong in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The year used comes from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress .