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{{Officeholder
|name=William Strong
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]] (1840s)<br/>later, [[Republican]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|offices=
	{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
	|role=Associate
	|nominator=[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
	|terms=February 18, 1870 – December 14, 1880
	|preceded=[[Robert C. Grier]]
	|former=y
	|succeeded=[[William B. Woods]]
	}}
	{{Officeholder/representative
	|state=Pennsylvania
	|district=9th
	|terms=March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851
	|preceded=John Ritter
	|former=y
	|succeeded=Jehu Glancy Jones
	}}
}}
'''William Strong''' (May 6, 1808 – August 19, 1895) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was nominated to the Court by [[Ulysses Grant]] along with [[Joseph Bradley]] specifically because Grant wanted the Legal Tender Act to be upheld as constitutional, which would reverse an earlier Court decision; ''Knox v. Lee'' would grant Grant's wish.<ref name="ariens">{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/strong.htm|language=English|title=William Strong}}</ref><ref name="jrank">{{cite web|work=law.jrank|title=William Strong|language=English|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/10561/Strong-William.html}}</ref> Strong was an advocate of a constitutional amendment declaring the United States a [[Christian]] nation.<ref name="ariens"/> In ''Strauder v. West Virginia'', Strong wrote the majority opinion for a Court that ruled that allowing only white males to serve as jurors violated the [[Equal Protection Clause]].<ref name="jrank"/> After retiring in good health (as an example to other justices<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/william_strong|work=Oyez|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|language=English|title=William Strong}}</ref>), Strong led the [[NRA]].<ref name="jrank"/>

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