Michael Lathrop "Mike" Strang (June 17, 1929 – January 12, 2014) was an American politician who was a
one-term Republican U.S. Representative
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from
Colorado from 1985 to 1987.
Early life
Born in
New Hope, Pennsylvania, Strang was the grandson of landscape painter
William Langson Lathrop
William Langson Lathrop (pronounced "LAY-throp") (March 29, 1859 – September 21, 1938) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and founder of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is sometimes referred to as a "Pennsylvania I ...
. His family moved to Colorado in 1932, where he was raised and homeschooled at their ranch near
Golden
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.
Korean War
He served as a second lieutenant in the
United States Army from 1950 to 1953.
Education
Strang graduated with an A.B. in history from
Princeton University in 1956 after completing a senior thesis titled ''"Law, Politics and Religion: The Mercury View."''
He then did graduate work at the
University of Geneva in
Switzerland
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.
Career
He was a rancher and investment banker from 1957 to 1985.
Strang served in the
Colorado House of Representatives
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from 1970 to 1974, where he notably introduced legislation to legalize and regulate the sale and consumption of marijuana.
Congress
In 1984, he was elected as a
Republican to the
Ninety-ninth Congress, defeating
W Mitchell
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Early life
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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1986, losing to
Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
Later career and death
He resumed horse and cattle ranching and worked as a consultant on natural resources and taxes. He was a resident of
Carbondale, Colorado until his death there on January 12, 2014.
Electoral history
References
Further reading
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1929 births
2014 deaths
Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
United States Army officers
Military personnel from Colorado
Ranchers from Colorado
American investment bankers
Businesspeople from Colorado
People from Garfield County, Colorado
People from New Hope, Pennsylvania
Princeton University alumni
University of Geneva alumni
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American businesspeople
Military personnel from Pennsylvania