Myer Strouse (December 16, 1825 – February 11, 1878) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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. Myer Strouse was born in Oberstrau,

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to a Jewish family.Stone, Kurt F. "''The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members'', (2011).
Pages 25–27. . He immigrated to the

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in 1832 with his father, who settled in

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. He attended private schools and edited the '' North American Farmer'' in

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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 and Thirty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of law, and was attorney and solicitor for the "

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

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1825 births 1878 deaths Politicians from Pottsville, Pennsylvania Bavarian emigrants to the United States Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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