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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasJames George STRONG
(1870-1938)
STRONG, James George, a
Representative from Kansas; born in Dwight, Livingston County,
Ill., April 23, 1870; attended the public schools of Dwight, Ill.,
1876-1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Dak.,
1879-1880, the public school at St. Marys, Kans., 1882-1887, and
Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., 1887-1889; moved to Blue Rapids,
Kans., in 1891; engaged in the real estate, loan, and insurance
businesses; also studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and
commenced practice in Blue Rapids; also interested in mercantile
and agricultural pursuits; city attorney 1896-1911; organized the
Blue Rapids Telephone Co. in 1905; assistant attorney general of
Marshall County in 1911 and 1912; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions in 1912 and 1928; organized and developed the
Marshall County Power & Light Co. in 1912; member of the school
board 1913-1916; prosecuting attorney of Marshall County in 1916
and 1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); chairman,
Committee on War Claims (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first
Congresses); unsuccessful for renomination in 1932; appointed first
assistant treasurer of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in
1933 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 11,
1938; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Blue Rapids, Kans.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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