Myer Strouse was a Democratic

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Myer Strouse was born in Oberstrau, Bavaria

Bavaria

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, Germany

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. Immigrated to the United States

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 in 1832 with his father, who settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Pottsville, Pennsylvania

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. He attended private schools and edited the North American Farmer in Philadelphia from 1848 to 1852. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Pottsville.

Strouse was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth

38th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:Before this Congress, the 1860 United States Census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 241 members...

 and Thirty-ninth

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 Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1866

United States House election, 1866

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. He resumed the practice of law, and was attorney and solicitor for the “Molly Maguires

Molly Maguires

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,” a secret organization in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, in 1876 and 1877. He died in Pottsville in 1878. Interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard