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Thomas Jefferson Strait (December 25, 1846 – April 18, 1924) was a
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from
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.


Biography

Born in Chester District, South Carolina, Strait attended the common schools of
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, and Cooper Institute, Mississippi. During the
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entered the
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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
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, 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
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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
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, and died there on April 18, 1924. He was interred in Westside Cemetery.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Strait, Thomas Jefferson 1846 births 1924 deaths Confederate States Army personnel Democratic Party South Carolina state senators Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina People from Chester County, South Carolina People from Lancaster, South Carolina 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly