For the next four years, he worked on the family farm and attended school for only three to four months during the winter until he reached age 16.
He supported Thaddeus Stevens's 1836 personal and property tax repeal and opposed the 1836 public school act.
In his second term, after the Buckshot War, he broke from his party as one of two dissenting votes that enabled Democrat Ebeneezer Kingsbury's passage of the 1840 tax-bill, which raised taxes at a time that the State was nearly insolvent.
[1] During his second term, he lived with Abraham Lincoln in a Washington, DC boarding house.
[1] Strohm returned to Pennsylvania worked as a Surveyor and served as Justice of the Peace in Providence from 1859 through 1880.
He was president of the Big Spring and Beaver Valley Turnpike, and treasurer of the Providence Township School Board for six years.