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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaRobert STRANGE
(1796-1854)
Senate Years of Service:
1836-1840Party: Jacksonian; DemocratSTRANGE, Robert, a Senator
from North Carolina; born in Manchester, Va., September 20, 1796;
attended private schools in Virginia, New Oxford Academy, and
Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington,
Va.; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia; moved to
Fayetteville, N.C., in 1815; studied law; admitted to the bar and
practiced in Fayetteville; member, State house of commons
1821-1823, 1826; judge of the superior court of North Carolina
1827-1836; elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Willie P. Mangum and served from December 5, 1836, to November 16,
1840, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Patents and the
Patent Office (Twenty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law
in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C.; solicitor for the fifth
judicial district of North Carolina; engaged in literary pursuits;
died in Fayetteville, N.C., February 19, 1854; interment in the
family burial ground at ‘Myrtle Hill,’ near
Fayetteville, N.C.
Bibliography
Strange, Robert. Eoneguski, or The Cherokee Chief. 2 vols.
1839. Facsimile ed. Charlotte: McNally of Charlotte, 1960; Walser,
Richard. ”Senator Strange’s Indian Novel.”
North Carolina Historical Review 26 (January 1949):
1-27.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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