- Robert Strange
:"Other uses:
Robert Strange (painter) (1721-1792)."Robert Strange (
20 September 1796 -19 February 1854 ) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state ofNorth Carolina between 1836 and 1840.Strange was born in
Manchester, Virginia . He attended New Oxford Academy and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) inLexington, Virginia . He graduated fromHampden-Sydney College in south central Virginia in 1815 and practiced law inFayetteville, North Carolina .He was elected to the
North Carolina House of Commons (1821-1823 and 1826) and was a judge of thesuperior court of North Carolina (1827-1836).Strange was elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Willie Person Mangum and served from December 5, 1836, to November 16, 1840, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, where he died on February 19, 1854 and was buried in the family burial ground at Myrtle Hill, near Fayetteville.He was the author of "Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief", which has been called the first North Carolina novel (DAB).
References
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000992 Biographical Directory of Congress]
External links
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/strange1/menu.html Full Text of "Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief"] at the University of North Carolina
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