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Bennett Strong

1819 – 1906

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Lived 1819 – 1906 (aged 86). Bennett Strong was an American politician.

Bennett U. Strong (April 28, 1819 – February 1, 1906) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and the first settler at Spring Green, Wisconsin. He served two years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Sauk County.

Biography Bennett Strong was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, in 1819. He was raised and educated there and came to Wisconsin in 1853, settling at Janesville. In 1857, he relocated to the town of Spring Green in Sauk County, where he was the first settler at what would become the village of Spring Green.

In 1869, he was elected on the Republican Party ticket to the Wisconsin State Senate, representing all of Sauk County. In the Legislature, he served on the committees on incorporations, on legislative expenditures, and on military affairs. He did not run for re-election in 1871. and, in 1890, he was nominated for Wisconsin State Assembly on the Prohibition ticket in Sauk County's 1st Assembly district. He came in third in the general election, behind Democrat Thomas William English and Republican William F. Conger.

Sometime after 1892, Strong and his wife moved to Los Angeles County, California, where he died in 1906.

Electoral history Wisconsin Senate (1869)

Wisconsin Assembly (1890)

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Member of the State Senate of Wisconsin

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Who was Bennett Strong?

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When was Bennett Strong born?

Bennett Strong was born on 28 April 1819 in Woodbury.

When did Bennett Strong die?

Bennett Strong died on 1 February 1906 in Los Angeles County, California.

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Bennett Strong was a politician.

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Bennett Strong was American.

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