Here’s a 19th Century Autograph of New Jersey Civil
War Statesman
JOHN
LEAKE NEWBOLD STRATTON
(1817 – 1889)
·
CIVIL WAR US REPUBLICAN
PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM MOUNT HOLLY, NJ 1859-1863,
· DELEGATE TO THE “UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION
OF CONSERVATIVES” AT PHILADELPHIA IN 1866, FORMED TO ENDORSE PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S APPROACH TO CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION,
WHICH INVOLVED QUICKLY READMITTING CONFEDERATE STATES AND FOCUSING ON
RECONCILIATION RATHER THAN PUNISHMENT,
·
BANKER and FINANCIER - PRESIDENT OF
THE FARMERS' NATIONAL BANK OF MOUNT HOLLY, NJ, and
·
NOTED PRINCETON COLLEGE-EDUCATED
LAWYER PRACTICING IN MOUNT HOLLY.
HERE IS STRATTON’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A DOCUMENT
AND MOUNTED TO AN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM PAGE – BOLDLY SIGNED: “John L. N. Stratton”
BIOGRAPHY OF THE
HONORABLE 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 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.
The document measures 6¾” x 4” and is in very
fine+ condition.
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