Julius L. Strong
{{Short description|American politician}}
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|state = Connecticut
|district = {{ushr|CT|1|1st}}
|term_start = March 4, 1869
|term_end = September 7, 1872
|predecessor = Richard D. Hubbard
|successor = Joseph R, Hawley
|birth_date = {{birth date|1828|11|8}}
|birth_place = Bolton, Connecticut, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1872|9|7|1828|11|8}}
|death_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S
|party = Republican
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|education = State and National Law School
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Julius Levi Strong (November 8, 1828 – September 7, 1872) was an American politician from Connecticut who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1869 to 1872.
Early life and education
Strong was born in Bolton, Connecticut. He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut for one year before transferring to Union College in Schenectady, New York. He left Union college in 1852 to study law at State and National Law School in Ballston Spa, New York.
Career
He served as member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1852 and the Connecticut Senate in 1853. He read law under Martin Welles and was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Hartford, Connecticut.{{cite book |last1=Hooker |first1=John |title=Connecticut Reports: Containing Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut |date=1873 |publisher=Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard |location=Hartford |page=582 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9gaAAAAYAAJ&q=julius+levi+strong&pg=PA582 |access-date=22 February 2020}} He served as a member of the State house of representatives for a second time in 1855. He served as prosecuting attorney in 1864 and 1865. He served as president of the common council.
Strong was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Hartford, Connecticut on September 7, 1872.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
See also
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External links
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strong.html#922.81.54 Julius Levi Strong entry] at The Political Graveyard
- {{Find a Grave|7372342}}
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Category:Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
Category:Republican Party Connecticut state senators
Category:Republican Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Category:People from Bolton, Connecticut
Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
Category:State and National Law School alumni
Category:Union College (New York) alumni
Category:Wesleyan University alumni
Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
Category:19th-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly