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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJames STRONG
(1783-1847)
STRONG, James, a
Representative from New York; born in Windham, Conn., in 1783; was
graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1806;
moved to Hudson, Columbia County, N.Y.; elected as Federalist to
the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); elected as an
Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an
Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, and
elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March
4, 1823-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Territories
(Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses); died in Chester, Morris
County, N.J., on August 8, 1847.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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