Michael Carver Trout (September 30, 1810 – June 25, 1873) was an American politician who served one term as aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania from 1853 to 1855.
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Trout was born inHickory Township, Pennsylvania. He received a very limited education, and was employed as ahatter for three years and then became acarpenter and contractor.
He served as president of the Hickory Township School Board for twenty years. He was elected burgess of Sharon in 1841, recorder ofMercer County, Pennsylvania, from 1842 to 1845, andprothonotary from 1846 to 1851.
Trout was elected as a Democrat to theThirty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.
After leaving Congress, he engaged in iron manufacturing, banking, and coal mining.
He died in Hickory Township in 1873. Interment in Morefield Cemetery in Hickory Township, nearSharon, Pennsylvania.
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