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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn Leake Newbold STRATTON
(1817-1889)
STRATTON, John Leake
Newbold, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Mount
Holly, Burlington County, N.J., November 27, 1817; attended private
schools at Mount Holly; prepared for college at Mendham; graduated
from Princeton College, 1836; lawyer, private practice; elected as
a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the succeeding Congress
(March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1862; delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives
at Philadelphia, 1866; president of the Farmers’ National
Bank of Mount Holly in 1875; died on May 17, 1889, Mount Holly,
N.J.; interment in St. Andrews Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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