Nathan T. Stratton

Stratton was born in Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey, on March 17, 1813, where he attended the common schools. ==Career==

He moved to Mullica Hill, New Jersey (within Harrison Township) in 1829 and clerked in a store, becoming a partner of his employer in 1835. He conducted his own business from 1840 to 1886. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1843 to 1844, and was a Justice of the Peace from 1844 to 1847. He also engaged in the real estate business and in agricultural pursuits, and held several local offices. Congress Stratton was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1855, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1854. ==After Congress==

He again engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was elected as a member of the Harrison Township committee in 1865. He served as State tax commissioner and as a trustee of the State reform school for boys at Jamesburg, New Jersey, from 1865 to 1887. He was a delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress. ==Death==

He died in Mullica Hill on March 9, 1887, and was interred in the Baptist Cemetery. ==External links==