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William Strong served as a U.S. Supreme Court justice (1870–80), and is considered one of the most respected justices of the 19th-century court.
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William Strong served as a U.S. Supreme Court justice (1870–80), and is considered one of the most respected justices of the 19th-century court.
William Strong served as a U.S. Supreme Court justice (1870–80), and is considered one of the most respected justices of the 19th-century court. U.S. Supreme Court justice William Strong.

William Strong

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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William Strong (born May 6, 1808, Somers, Conn., U.S.β€”died Aug. 19, 1895, Lake Minnewaska, N.Y.) was a U.S. Supreme Court justice (1870–80), one of the most respected justices of the 19th-century court. Admitted to the bar in 1832, Strong practiced law in Reading, Pa., and served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1847–51). While sitting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1857–68), Strong, a Democrat but a firm supporter of the Union, changed his political affiliation...

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