For the Welsh rugby player see Nathan Strong (rugby)

Nathan Leroy Strong (November 12, 1859 – December 14, 1939) was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Nathan L. Strong was born in Troy (now Summerville

Summerville, Pennsylvania

Summerville is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 525 at the 2000 census. It was named after Summers Baldwin, first settler in the area...

), Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

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. He worked as a telegraph operator and railroad agent from 1877 to 1894. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Brookville, Pennsylvania

Brookville, Pennsylvania

Brookville is a borough in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. 2,472 people lived in Brookville in 1900, and 3,003 people lived there in 1910. The population was 4,230 at the 2000 census...

, in 1893. He served as district attorney of Jefferson County from 1895 to 1900. He was engaged in the development of mineral lands in Jefferson and Armstrong

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

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 Counties from 1901 to 1916, and served a president of the Mohawk Mining Company. He was also engaged in banking.

Strong was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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 and to the eight succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934

United States House election, 1934

The United States House of Representatives elections of 1934 occurred in the middle of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term. The Democratic Party continued its progress, gaining another 9 net seats from the opposition Republican Party, who also lost seats to the Progressive Party...

. After he left Congress, he resumed his former business activities, and died in Brookville. Interment in Brookville Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard