Jesse Burr Strode (February 18, 1845 – November 10, 1924) was an American

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politician. He was born in Fulton County, Illinois on February 18, 1845, and graduated from Abingdon College in

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(which was later consolidated with

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). During the

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he enlisted in Company G, Fiftieth Regiment, of the

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Volunteer

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serving from September 10, 1861, to the end of the war. He returned to Abingdon first becoming principal of the schools from 1865 to 1873, being elected councilman six times and

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twice. He moved to

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and studied law passing the bar in and set up practice there in 1879. He was a district attorney from 1882 to 1888, moving to

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in 1887. He was a district court judge in 1892. He was elected to the

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and reelected to the Fifty-fifth United States Congress as a representative for the 1st district of Nebraska. He did not run for reelection in 1898, returning to Nebraska to become prosecuting attorney for the third district of Nebraska. He then became department commander of the

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in 1919 and 1920. He died in Lincoln on November 10, 1924, and is buried in

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