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STRAUB, Christian Markle, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Milton, Pa., in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar; prothonotary of Schuylkill County in 1845; sheriff of Schuylkill County in 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); member of the State senate 1856-1858; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in Pottsville, Pa.10. Thomas William Herringshaw. 1902. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. American Publ. Assn., Chicago, p. 900:
STRAUB, CHRISTIAN M., congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.