one of only three Republicans in 1886 to support the Morrison tariff reduction bill. Feeling increasingly isolated, Strait chose not to run for re-election in 1886. Strait served as chairman of the Committee on Militia in the Forty-seventh Congress and resumed banking at Shakopee while also engaging in agricultural pursuits. Strait died February 25, 1894, on a train at Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, en route to the United States and is interred at Valley Cemetery, Shakopee, Minnesota. References External links 1835 births 1894 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota 19th-century American politicians People from Potter County, Pennsylvania People from Jordan, Minnesota People from Shakopee, Minnesota