John L. N. Stratton
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John Leake Newbold Stratton (November 27, 1817, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
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 – May 17, 1889, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
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) was an American
United States
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 Republican Party
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 politician who represented New Jersey
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's 2nd congressional district
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 from 1859 to 1863.

Middleton was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
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 on November 27, 1817. He attended private schools at Mount Holly, prepared for college at Mendham, and graduated from Princeton College
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 in 1836. He was a lawyer in private practice.

Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth
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 and Thirty-seventh
37th United States Congress
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 Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth
38th United States Congress
-House of Representatives:Before this Congress, the 1860 United States Census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 241 members...

.

He was a delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866, and was president of the Farmers’ National Bank of Mount Holly in 1875. He died on May 17, 1889 in Mount Holly, and was interred there in St. Andrews Cemetery.

External links

  • John Leake Newbold Stratton at The Political Graveyard
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  • John Leake Newbold Stratton at Find A Grave
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