Selah B. Strong

Selah Brewster Strong (May 1, 1792 - November 29, 1872) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, he received a preliminary education and was graduated from Yale College in 1811. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1814 and began practice in New York City. During the War of 1812 he was commissioned as an ensign and quartermaster in the Tenth Regiment, Third Brigade, New York City and County Troops, and in 1815 was promoted successively to lieutenant and captain. He was master in chancery in 1817, moved to Brookhaven in 1820, and was district attorney for Suffolk County from 1821 to 1847, except for nine months in 1830. He was appointed judge advocate of the First Division of the New York State Infantry in 1825, and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844 and resumed the practice of law. He was judge of the New York supreme court for the second judicial district from June 7, 1847 to January 1, 1860 and was a member of the New York constitutional convention in 1867. He died in Setauket in 1872; interment was on his estate.

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