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William Franklin Strowd (December 7, 1832 – December 12, 1911) was an American farmer and Confederate American Civil War veteran who served two terms as a Populist U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1895 and 1899.
Biography
Strowd was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1832 and attended local schools.
= Civil War
=A farmer, he was a private in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
= Career
=Strowd was a member of the North Carolina Constitution Convention of 1875. In 1892, he unsuccessfully sought election as a Populist to the U.S. House.
Congress
In 1894, he succeeded, and served two terms in Washington, D.C., in the 54th and 55th Congresses.
= Later career and death
=He did not seek renomination in 1898, and died in 1911 in Chapel Hill, where he is buried.
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- People's Party (United States)
- United States congressional delegations from North Carolina
- John W. Atwater
- North Carolina's 4th congressional district
- List of United States representatives from North Carolina
- 55th United States Congress
- 54th United States Congress
- Charles M. Cooke
- Benjamin H. Bunn
