American politician
John Leake Newbold Stratton (November 27, 1817, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey – May 17, 1889, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district for two terms from 1859 to 1863.
Early life and career
Stratton was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey, on November 27, 1817. He attended private schools at Mount Holly, prepared for college at Mendham, and graduated from Princeton College in 1836. He was a lawyer in private practice. In 1842, he married Caroline Elizabeth Newbold, a distant cousin. In 1845, they had a son, James; in 1850, they had a daughter, Louisa. James would follow in his father's footsteps and attend Princeton, graduating in 1865, before entering law as a commissioner for the New Jersey Third Circuit Court and eventually entering military service, dying in 1886 as a colonel.
Congress
Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh 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.
Later career and death
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.
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