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Caleb Strong (
January 9,
1745 -
November 7,
1819) was
Massachusetts lawyer and politician who served as the
governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816.
He was born in
Northampton, Massachusetts. During the
American Revolution he served on the Northampton
Committee of Safety. He was a delegate to the 1779 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and helped write the 1780
state constitution. He was elected as a delegate to the
Continental Congress in 1780 but didn't serve. He sat on the first
Massachusetts Governor's Council, and was a state senator from 1780 to 1789.
Strong was elected as a delegate to the
Philadelphia Convention that drafted the
U.S. Constitution. Illness of his wife forced him to return to Massachusetts before the work was completed, so he didn't sign the document. However, he supported its adoption by the state's ratifying convention.
Governor Strong opposed the
War of 1812 to the point of refusing to call out the state militia to support the war. A strong
Federalist, he nonetheless adhered to the
states' rights view that only the governor had to power to call out the state militia, not the U.S. President. This stance, combined with a shortage of volunteer soldiers, forced
Andrew Jackson and commander
Oliver Hazard Perry to allow colored men into the ranks of the Federal army.
Strong died in
Northampton, Massachusetts, and is buried at the Bridge Street Cemetery in
Northampton, Massachusetts.
The
town of
Strong, Maine is named after Governor Strong.
Windham, Ohio was also originally named in Strong's honor; the original name of this village was Strongsburg.
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