Strange, Robert
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, author, was born Sept. 20, 1796, in Virginia. He served a number of years in the North Carolina state legislature; in 1826 was elected a judge of the superior court; and held the office until elected a senator of the United States in 1835. He was subsequently appointed solicitor for the fifth judicial district of the state. He was the author of a novel entitled Eoneguski; or, the Cherokee Chief. He died Feb. 19, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. C.
STRANGE, WILLOUGHBY TEMPLE, lawyer, politician, was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Charlottesville, Va. He is a son of the confederate states general, John B.
Strange of Virginia, who was killed in the battle of Sharpsburg in 1862. He received his education at the William and Mary college of Williamsburg, Va.; at the Richmond college; and at the university of Virginia. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Texas, and a leading politician of Dallas, where he takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. In 1897 he was made chairman of the congressional campaign committee of the sixth district of Texas.