Theron Rudd Strong (November 7, 1802

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– May 14, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. From 1839 to 1841, he served one term in the

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Life

He studied law at

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. He was

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in 1821, and commenced practice in

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. In 1833, he married Abbie Louise Hart (1814–1840), daughter of State Senator

Truman Hart Truman Hart (December 9, 1784 Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut - February 7, 1838 Palmyra, Wayne County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Thomas Hart (b. 1749), President of the Hami ...

. Theron R. Strong was District Attorney of Wayne County from 1835 to 1839.

Congress

Strong was elected as a

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to the

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, and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.

Later career

He was a member from Wayne County of the

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in 1842. He was a justice of the

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(7th District) from 1852 to 1859, and

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a judge of the

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in 1858. He removed to

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, the seat of the district bench, and afterwards resumed the practice of law there. He removed to New York City in 1867, and continued the practice of law.

Death

He was buried at the

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Family

Congressman William Strong, of

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, was his cousin.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 227, 308, 352 and 384; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

Court of Appeals judges

External links

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