Caleb Strong
BIRTH
Jan 9, 1745
Northampton, Massachusetts
DEATH
November 7, 1819
Northampton, Massachusetts
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1800-1807
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (MA)
1787
FAMILY
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Strong, Caleb
(1745-1819)
Caleb Strong was a Massachusetts lawyer and Patriot-era politician who served in the state legislature and helped draft the Massachusetts Constitution. He later participated in the United States Constitutional Convention and became a senator and governor.
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Clarissa Dwight
(1783-1855)
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DIED:
Northampton, Massachusetts
Nov 7, 1819
Caleb Strong was born on Jan 9, 1745 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Caleb Strong with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Caleb Strong died on Nov 7, 1819 in Northampton, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.