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Senate Years of Service: 1789-1796 Party: Pro-Administration; Federalist
STRONG, Caleb, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Northampton, Mass., January 9,
1745; studied under private tutors; graduated from Harvard College in 1764;
studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1772; Northampton
selectman; member of the committee of correspondence and safety throughout the
Revolution; member, State house of representatives 1776-1778; member, State
senate 1780-1788; county attorney 1776-1800; elected to the Continental
Congress in 1780, but did not attend; member of the national convention in
Philadelphia which framed the Constitution of the United States; member of the
Massachusetts constitutional convention which ratified the Constitution of the
United States; elected to the United States Senate in 1789; reelected in 1793,
and served from March 4, 1789, to June 1, 1796, when he resigned; Governor of
Massachusetts 1800-1807, 1812-1816; died in Northampton, Mass., November 7,
1819; interment in Bridge Street Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Lodge, Henry
Cabot.
A Memoir of Caleb Strong. Cambridge, Mass.: Press of J. Wilson
& Son, 1879.
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