William Strong (lawyer)
William Strong (* 6. May 1808 in Somers , Connecticut ; † 19th August 1895 in Lake Minnewassa , New York ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a lawyer , among other things, the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives took between 1870 and 1880 judge at the Supreme Court of the United States (US Supreme Court) was.
Life
After attending Munson Academy, he studied at Yale University , graduating in 1828. He then worked as a teacher in New Haven and also studied law . After his legal admission in Pennsylvania , he settled as a lawyer in Reading in 1832 .
He later began a political career in the Democratic Party and was from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851 a member of the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania , whose ninth congressional constituency he represented. During his membership, he was also from March 1849 to March 1851 chairman of the US House Committee on Elections .
In 1850 he decided not to run again and instead resumed his practice as a lawyer after leaving parliament. In 1857 he was appointed a judge at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and was a member of this until 1868, before he worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia for two years .
On February 7, 1870, US President Ulysses S. Grant Strong, who was now a member of the Republican Party , appointed Assistant Justice at the US Supreme Court and thus the successor to Robert Cooper Grier . The former Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton , originally nominated by Grant, had died before he took office. He held the office of Associate Justice for more than ten years until his resignation on December 14, 1880 and his replacement by William Burnham Woods .
In 1876 he was one of the members of a fifteen-member electoral commission, which was composed equally of five members of the US House of Representatives , the US Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide on the dispute in the US presidential elections in 1876 . The electoral commission finally decided on March 2nd that Rutherford B. Hayes had won the three southern states (and thus the general election against Samuel J. Tilden ) (the respective party members each voted for their candidate). On March 5, 1876, Hayes was sworn in as the new president.
During his membership in the US Supreme Court, among other things, in March 1880 he worked on the decision on the Strauder v. West Virginia , according to which the general exclusion of blacks from jury courts is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
After leaving the US Supreme Court, he worked again as a lawyer. Strong, who had seven children from two marriages, was a cousin of New York Democratic Congressman Theron Rudd Strong and was buried in Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading after his death .
Web links
- William Strong in nndb (English)
- William Strong in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- William Strong in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- William Strong in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| John Knight |
United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (9th constituency) March 4, 1847 - March 3, 1851 |
Jehu Glancy Jones |
| Robert Cooper Grier | Judge at the Supreme Court of the United States February 18, 1870 - December 14, 1880 |
William Burnham Woods |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strong, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somers , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1895 |
| Place of death | Lake Minnewassa , New York |