He later spent a single one-year term in 1849 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from that county.
In late 1832, his father had moved to Troy, New York; Marshall entered Union College in nearby Schenectady, New York, and studied there for an unknown period.
When the Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", Strong was among those who were appointed to its Board of Visitors; however, this body (the predecessor of the U.W.
[5] He was a delegate to the 1st Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, but resigned from that body and acted as a leader of the successful movement to reject the ratification of the Constitution it had drafted, one he considered too radical in its provisions.
[6] When the Racine, Janesville and Mississippi Railroad Company, later the Racine and Mississippi Rail Road Company) was incorporated by the legislature April 17, 1852, Strong was one of the incorporators.