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Preceded by
  
Role
  
U.S. representative

Resigned
  
March 3, 1899

Name
  
Thomas Strait

Occupation
  
Succeeded by
  
Political party
  
Party
  
Democratic Party


Born
  
December 25, 1846Chester District, South Carolina (
1846-12-25
)

Alma mater
  
South Carolina Medical College

Allegiance
  
Service/branch
  
Died
  
April 18, 1924, Lancaster, South Carolina, United States

Education
  
Medical University of South Carolina

Battles and wars
  
American Civil War

Thomas Jefferson Strait (December 25, 1846 – April 18, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

Born in Chester District, South Carolina, Strait attended the common schools of Mayesville, South Carolina, and Cooper Institute, Mississippi. During the Civil War entered the Confederate States Army in 1862 and served throughout the war, first in Company A, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, and later as sergeant in Company H, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Gist's brigade. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He taught school in Ebenezer, South Carolina, in 1880. He was graduated from South Carolina Medical College at Charleston in 1885 and practiced medicine. He served as member of the State senate 1890-1893.

Strait was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1899). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession in Lancaster, South Carolina, and died there on April 18, 1924. He was interred in Westside Cemetery.

References

Thomas J. Strait Wikipedia


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