{{Short description|American politician (1813–1887)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Nathan Taylor Stratton | state1 = New Jersey | district1 = 1st | party = Democrat | term1 = March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855 | preceded1 = Andrew K. Hay | succeeded1 = Isaiah D. Clawson | office2 = Member of the New Jersey General Assembly | term2 = 1843–1844 | birth_date = March 17, 1813 | birth_place = Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey | death_date = {{Death date and age|1887|3|9|1813|3|17}} | death_place = Mullica Hill, New Jersey | spouse = | profession = Shopkeeper, Politician }} '''Nathan Taylor Stratton''' (March 17, 1813 – March 9, 1887) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1851 to 1855.
==Early life and education== 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== {{Portal|Biography}} {{CongBio|S000996|Nathan Taylor Stratton}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stratton.html#R9M0JE9R1 Nathan Taylor Stratton] at The Political Graveyard *{{Find a Grave|6940919|Nathan Taylor Stratton}}
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