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WILLIAM STRONG
was born in Somers Connecticut, on May 6, 1808. He was
graduated from Yale College in 1828 and taught school
in Connecticut and New Jersey for four years. Strong also
obtained a graduate degree from Yale in 1831 and attended
its Law School briefly in 1832. He moved to Reading, Pennsylvania,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1832 and established
a law practice. Strong was elected to the Reading City
Council. In 1846, he was elected to the United States
House of Representatives; he was re-elected two years
later. In 1857, Strong was elected to a fifteen-year term
on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where he served for
eleven years. He resigned in 1868 to resume his law practice.
On February 7, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated
Strong to the Supreme Court of the United States. The
Senate confirmed the appointment on February 18, 1870.
While on the Court, he was appointed a member of the electoral
commission which decided the disputed Presidential election
of 1876 in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. Strong served
on the Supreme Court for ten years. He retired on December
14, 1880, and died on August 19, 1895, at the age of eighty-seven.
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