STRONG, CALEB
\stɹˈɒŋ], \stɹˈɒŋ], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɒ_ŋ]\
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(1745-1819), Governor, was a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence and Safety from 1774 to 1775, and of the Massachusetts general court from 1776 to 1778. He aided in drafting the State constitution in 1779. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1780 to 1789. In 1787 he was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He was a Federalist U.S. Senator from 1989 to 1796, and governor of Massachusetts from 1800 to 1807 and from 1812 to 1816.
By John Franklin Jameson
