Senate Years of Service: 1836-1840
Party: Jacksonian; Democrat

STRANGE, Robert, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Manchester, Va., September 20, 1796; attended private schools in Virginia, New Oxford Academy, and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va.; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia; moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1815; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Fayetteville; member, State house of commons 1821-1823, 1826; judge of the superior court of North Carolina 1827-1836; elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willie P. Mangum and served from December 5, 1836, to November 16, 1840, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Twenty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C.; solicitor for the fifth judicial district of North Carolina; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Fayetteville, N.C., February 19, 1854; interment in the family burial ground at ‘Myrtle Hill,’ near Fayetteville, N.C.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present. Image: University of North Carolina Library)

 

STRANGE, ROBERT, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, author, was born Sept. 20, 1796, in Virginia. He served a number of years in the North Carolina state legislature; in 1826 was elected a judge of the superior court; and held the office until elected a senator of the United States in 1835. He was subsequently appointed solicitor for the fifth judicial district of the state. He was the author of a novel entitled Eoneguski or, the Cherokee Chief. He died Feb. 19, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. C.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]