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About Caleb Strong, Governor, U.S. Senator
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Caleb Strong
BIRTH 9 Jan 1745 Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 7 Nov 1819 (aged 74) Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL Bridge Street Cemetery Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA MEMORIAL ID 7493081
US Senator, Massachusetts Governor. Served as a United States Senator from 1789 to 1796, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1800 to 1807, and 1812 to 1816. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1776, Member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1780, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts in 1780, and Member of the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Bio by: Peterborough K
Family Members
Parents Photo Caleb Strong 1710–1776
Photo Phebe Lyman Strong 1717–1802
Spouse Photo Sarah Hooker Strong 1758–1817
Siblings
Martha Strong Moseley unknown–1827
Phebe Strong Bellows 1740–1817
Asahel Strong 1753–1754
Dorothy Strong Hinckley 1758–1802
Achsah Strong 1762–1770
Children
Theodore Strong 1779–1855
Sarah Strong 1781–1783
Clarissa Strong Dwight 1783–1855
Lewis Strong 1785–1863
Edward Strong 1790–1813
Julia A Strong 1793–1818
Phebe Strong 1795–1799
Philip Strong 1799–1800
Caleb Strong
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6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts
In office
May 30, 1800 – May 29, 1807
June 1812 – May 30, 1816
Lieutenant Samuel Phillips, Jr. (1801-1802)
Edward H. Robbins (1802-1806)
William Phillips, Jr. (1812-1816)
Preceded by Governor's Council (1800)
Elbridge Gerry (1812)
Succeeded by James Sullivan (1807)
John Brooks (1816)
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United States Senator
from Massachusetts
In office
March 4, 1789 – June 1, 1796
Preceded by Office Created
Succeeded by Theodore Sedgwick
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Born January 9, 1745(1745-01-09)
Northampton, Massachusetts
Died November 7, 1819 (aged 74)
Northampton, Massachusetts
Political party Federalist/Pro-Administration
Alma mater Harvard University
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Caleb Strong (January 9, 1745 - November 7, 1819) was Massachusetts lawyer and politician who served as the sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816.
Biography
Strong was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. During the American Revolution he served on the Northampton Committee of Safety. He was a delegate to the 1779 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and helped write the 1780 state constitution. He was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780 but did not serve. He sat on the first Massachusetts Governor's Council, and was a state senator from 1780 to 1789.[1]
Strong was elected as a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution. Illness of his wife forced him to return to Massachusetts before the work was completed, so he did not sign the document. However, he supported its adoption by the state's ratifying convention.
Governor Strong opposed the War of 1812 to the point of refusing to call out the state militia to support the war. A strong Federalist, he nonetheless adhered to the states' rights view that only the governor had the power to call out the state militia, not the U.S. President. Near the end of the war, during the Hartford Convention, Strong entered secret negotiations with the British which would have ceded them northern Maine in return for agreeing to a separate peace with Massachusetts. However the Treaty of Ghent ended the war before terms could be finalized.[2]
Strong died in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is buried at the Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton, Massachusetts.
In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Caleb Strong was named in his honor.
The town of Strong, Maine is named after Governor Strong.[3] Windham, Ohio was also originally named in Strong's honor; the original name of this village was Strongsburg.
References
^ Source for this paragraph: David L. Sterling. "Strong, Caleb"; American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000.
^ Samuel Eliot Morison, Harrison Gray Otis, 1765-1848: The Urbane Federalist (1913); revised edition (1969), pp. 362-70.
^ "STRONG COMMUNITY PROFILE". www.epodunk.com. http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2367. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
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Caleb Strong, Governor, U.S. Senator's Timeline
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January 9, 1745
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Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
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January 13, 1779
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Northampton (Hampshire) Massachusetts
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February 19, 1781
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Northampton (Hampshire) Massachusetts
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Northampton (Hampshire) Massachusetts
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June 14, 1783
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June 14, 1783
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1785
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Northampton (Hampshire) Massachusetts
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