John L. N. Stratton
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 for two terms from 1859 to 1863. Early life and career Stratton 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. Congress 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. Later career and death 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 John Leake Newbold Stratton at The Political Graveyard 1817 births 1889 deaths New Jersey lawyers People from Mount Holly, New Jersey Princeton University alumni Republican Party members of the