Theron Rudd Strong (November 7, 1802 – May 14, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. From 1839 to 1841, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Life He studied law at Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1821, and commenced practice in Palmyra. In 1833, he married Abbie Louise Hart (1814–1840), daughter of State Senator Truman Hart.
Family He married secondly Cornelia Wheeler Barnes by whom he had a daughter named Cornelia Wheeler Strong, a descendant of Capt. Thomas Yale of the Yale family.Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and covering a period of nearly three centuries, 1632-1912, p. 119-161Landmarks of a lawyer's lifetime, Theron G. Strong, p. 31Register of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, 1893-1913, p. 206
Theron R. Strong was District Attorney of Wayne County from 1835 to 1839.
Congressman William Strong, of Pennsylvania, was his cousin.
Congress Strong was elected as a Democrat to the 26th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.
Later career He was a member from Wayne County of the New York State Assembly in 1842.
He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (7th District) from 1852 to 1859, and ex officio a judge of the New York Court of Appeals in 1858. He removed to Rochester, New York, the seat of the district bench, and afterwards resumed the practice of law there.
He removed to New York City in 1867, and continued the practice of law.
Death He died on May 14, 1873 and was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.
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The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 227, 308, 352 and 384; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) Court of Appeals judges
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