Strong, William. Born in Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, May 6, 1808. Educated at Plainfield Academy and at Yale College. After graduating, in 1828, he taught school in Connecticut and in New Jersey, meanwhile studying law; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1832, and soon after began to practice law in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth and to the Thirty-first Congresses. Upon retiring from Congress he resumed his profession, and continued in the practice until 1857, when he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for fifteen years. Resigned that position in 1868 and returned to the bar; and in 1870 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1867 he received from Lafayette College the degree of L.L.D., and the same honor from Yale College and the College of New Jersey.
Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 412.
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