Theron R. Strong

Theron Rudd Strong (born November 7, 1802 in Salisbury , Connecticut , † May 14, 1873 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1839 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman William Strong was his cousin.

Career

Theron Rudd Strong attended community schools. He studied law at Litchfield Law School . After receiving his license to practice bar in 1821, he began practicing in Palmyra , Wayne County . He was a Masters and Examiner at the New York Court of Chancery for several years . He also held several local offices. He was a district attorney in Wayne County from 1835 to 1839.

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the 1838 congressional elections for the 26th Congress , Strong was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 25th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Samuel Birdsall on March 4, 1839 . He retired from the after March 3, 1841 Congress of.

In 1842 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He was an associate judge in the New York Supreme Court between 1851 and 1859 and a judge in the New York Court of Appeals in 1859. In 1860 he moved to Rochester , where he resumed his practice as a lawyer. Strong returned to New York City in 1867. He continued to work as a lawyer until his death on May 14, 1873. At that point the civil war had ended for about eight years. His body was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 227, 308, 352 and 384.

Web links

• Theron R. Strong in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theron R. Strong in the database of Find a Grave (English)