Horace B. Strait

Horace Burton Strait ( born January 26, 1835 Potter County, Pennsylvania, † February 25, 1894 in Juárez, Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1883 he represented twice the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Horace Strait attended the public schools of his home. In 1846 he moved with his parents to Indiana. Nine years later, in 1855, to Strait settled near Jordan in Minnesota, where he worked in agriculture. In 1860 he moved to Shakopee and operational there a shop. During the Civil War Strait rose to become a major in the Union army. At times, he was Inspector General on the staff of an army high command. After the war Strait was curator of the mental hospital of Minnesota. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1870 to 1872 he was mayor of Shakopee. At that time he was also commercially active in the crafts and in the banking industry.

1872 Strait was in the second electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John T. Averill on March 4, 1873. After two re- elections he was initially able to complete three legislative sessions in Congress until March 3, 1879. In this time, the end of Reconstruction fell into the former states of the Confederacy. In the elections of 1878 Strait was defeated by Democrat Henry Poehler. Two years later he succeeded, however, Poehler to beat in the elections and win back his old seat. So that he could move again to Congress on March 4, 1881. In the years 1882 and 1884, he was elected in the third district, succeeding William D. Washburn. Until March 3, 1887, he was able to remain in Congress. Between 1881 and 1883 he was chairman of the militia committee.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Horace Strait took his previous jobs in Shakopee again. He died on February 25, 1894 in the Mexican Juárez when he was in a train on the way home. Strait was buried in his home in Shakopee.

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