Caleb Strong

Infobox Governor
name = Caleb Strong


imagesize = 200px
order = 6th and 10th
office = Governor of Massachusetts
term_start = May 30, 1800
term_end = May 29, 1807
June 1812ndash May 30, 1816
lieutenant = Samuel Phillips, Jr. (1801-1802)
Edward H. Robbins (1802-1806)
William Phillips, Jr. (1812-1816)
predecessor = Governor's Council (1800)
Elbridge Gerry (1812)
successor = James Sullivan (1807)
John Brooks (1816)
birth_date = birth date|1745|1|9|mf=y
birth_place = Northampton, Massachusetts
death_date = death date and age|1819|11|7|1745|1|9|mf=y
death_place = Northampton, Massachusetts
party = Federalist/Pro-Administration
spouse =
profession =
religion =
order2= United States Senator
from Massachusetts
term_start2= March 4, 1789
term_end2= June 1, 1796
predecessor2= None
successor2= Theodore Sedgwick

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 did not serve. He sat on the first Massachusetts Governor's Council, and was a state senator from 1780 to 1789. [Source for this paragraph: David L. Sterling. "Strong, Caleb"; "American National Biography Online", Feb. 2000.]

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 did not 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.

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.cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2367 |title=STRONG COMMUNITY PROFILE |publisher=www.epodunk.com |accessdate=2007-04-21] Windham, Ohio was also originally named in Strong's honor; the original name of this village was Strongsburg.

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* [http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/cstrong.htm Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography]