Nevada N. Stranahan
Nevada Northrop Stranahan 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 in 1890, 1891 and 1892; and was District Attorney of Oswego County.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. Illness forced him to resign the collectorship in 1907.
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. Stranahan received a refund in the sum of $8,821.44 from the federal government, having personally settled the entire amount of the fraud.