Marshall Strong

Marshall Mason Strong (September 3, 1813 – March 9, 1864) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, businessman, and politician from Racine, Wisconsin who served on the Wisconsin Territorial Council (the predecessor of the Wisconsin State Senate) of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in 1838–1839 and 1844–47 from Racine County, including a term as President of the Council. He later spent a single one-year term in 1849 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from that county.

Strong was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 3, 1813. His first American ancestor, Elder John Strong, had come to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 from England, and the next five generations in the Strong lineage remained in that state. His father was Hezekiah Wright Strong, a lawyer and the son of Simeon Strong (a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts). Marshall Strong spent two years at Amherst College from 1830–1832. In late 1832, his father had moved to Troy, New York; Marshall entered Union College in nearby Schenectady, New York and studied there for an unknown period. He later read the law in Troy, and was admitted to the bar there.

In 1838 he and Lorenzo Janes were among those who combined to found the newspaper the Racine Argus, the first newspaper in Racine County; and he and Janes served as its first editors. Strong was one of the first pair of Councillors from Racine County in 1838–1839. When the Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", Strong was among those who were appointed to its Board of Visitors; however, this body (the predecessor of the U.W. board of regents) never actually accomplished anything before statehood.

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