Myer Strouse (December 16, 1825 – February 11, 1878) was aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.

Myer Strouse was born inOberstrau,Kingdom of Bavaria to a Jewish family.^[1] He immigrated to theUnited States in 1832 with his father, who settled inPottsville, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools and edited theNorth American Farmer inPhiladelphia 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 theThirty-eighth andThirty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in1866. He resumed the practice of law, and was attorney and solicitor for the "Molly Maguires," 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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