George French Strother was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia

Virginia

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. He was the father of James French Strother

James F. Strother

James French Strother was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the son of George Strother and grandfather of another named James French Strother....

 and great-grandfather of another named James French Strother.

Born in Stevensburg, Virginia

Stevensburg, Virginia

Stevensburg is a small rural unincorporated community located at the intersection of Route 3 and Route 663 in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Stevensburg is about 6.9 miles east of Culpeper. Stevensburg's ZIP code is 22741...

, Strother attended the College of William and Mary

College of William and Mary

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, studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Culpeper County, Virginia

Culpeper County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 34,262 people, 12,141 households, and 9,045 families residing in the county. The population density was 90 people per square mile . There were 12,871 housing units at an average density of 34 per square mile...

. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Virginia House of Delegates

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 from 1806 to 1809 and was later elected a Democratic-Republican

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 to the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 in 1816, serving from 1817 to 1820. Strother then became receiver of public money in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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 where he died on November 28, 1840. He was originally interred in Christ Church Cemetery and was later reinterred in Bellefontaine Cemetery

Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries

Bellefontaine Cemetery and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds, which have numerous historic and extravagant tombstones and mausoleums. They are the necropolis for a number of prominent local and state politicians, as well as soldiers of the...

 in 1860.

External links

• George Strother at Find A Grave
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