STRONG, James (1783-1847)
Anti-Jacksonian of New York 
8th congressional district
Served in House 1819-1821 , 1823-1831
Biography
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.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
