Nevada N. Stranahan

thumb|Nevada Stranahan '''Nevada Northrop Stranahan''' (February 27, 1861 – July 6, 1928) was a Collector of the Port of New York who was born in Oswego County, New York.

==Career== He studied law at Columbia Law School and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co., 1st D.) in 1890, 1891 and 1892; and was District Attorney of Oswego County.<ref>{{cite book |title=Prominent and progressive Americans: an encyclopædia of contemporaneous biography |volume=2 |publisher=New York Tribune |date=1904 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0YDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Nevada+N.+Stranahan&pg=PA214}}</ref>

He was a member of the New York State Senate representing the 37th District from 1896 to 1902, sitting in the 119th, 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th and 125th New York State Legislatures. In March 1902, he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Collector of the Port of New York, and resigned his seat in the Senate.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/03/21/101942891.pdf Newspaper article, Nevada N. Stranahan named], New York Times, March 21, 1902</ref> Illness forced him to resign the collectorship in 1907.<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0711F73D5A17738DDDA10894D8415B878CF1D3 Newspaper article, Stranahan May Resign], New York Times, October 8, 1907</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120718161905/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/djreprints/access/108590410.html?dids=108590410:108590410&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+27,+1907&author=&pub=Wall+Street+Journal&desc=Col.+Fowler+Sworn+In.&pqatl=google Newspaper article, Col. Fowler Sworn In], Wall Street Journal, December 27, 1907</ref>

A private act of the 58th United States Congress in March 1904, indemnified Stranahan, and his two predecessors as Collector of customs for the district and port of New York James T. Kilbreth and George R. Bidwell for the losses through embezzlement by Byram W. Winters, a customs service clerk.<ref name="ByramFraud">{{cite news|title=Custom House Clerk Held|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/08/archives/custom-house-clerk-held-accused-of-embezzling-8683-said-to-have.html|accessdate=6 March 2023|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 8, 1903}}</ref> Stranahan received a refund in the sum of $8,821.44 from the federal government, having personally settled the entire amount of the fraud.

==Death== Stranahan died in Winwick, Northamptonshire, England on July 6, 1928.<ref>Monumental inscription in Winwick Churchyard</ref> His wife Elsie predeceased him in 1922. Afterward he lived in Winwick with his daughter Louise, the wife of Major Henry Torrens. He was survived by his daughter and a sister, Mrs. Cora Stranahan Woodward, of New York City.<ref>''N.N. Stranahan Dead; Ex Port Official Here'', New York Times, July 12, 1928, pg. 16.</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = S. Mortimer Coon | title = New York State Assembly <br>Oswego County, 1st District | years = 1890–1892 | after = Danforth E. Ainsworth}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = new district | title = New York State Senate <br>37th District | years = 1896–1902 | after = Francis H. Gates}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box | before = George R. Bidwell | title = Collector of the Port of New York | years = 1902–1907 | after = Henry C. Stuart <br>Acting}} {{s-end}}

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