John L. N. Stratton

Infobox Congressman
name = John Leake Newbold Stratton


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state = New Jersey
district = 2nd
party = Republican
term = March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863
preceded = George R. Robbins
succeeded = George Middleton
date of birth = November 27, 1817
place of birth = Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
date of death = May 17, 1889
place of death = Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
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profession = Politician
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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 from 1859 to 1863.

Middleton 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.

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.

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.

External links

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stratton.html#R9M0JE9NI John Leake Newbold Stratton] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6938468 John Leake Newbold Stratton] at Find A Grave