[1][2] He was born on June 5, 1885, in Chicago to Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (a Presbyterian minister) and Elizabeth Goss.
[1] By 1947, Life magazine had published an article about him: "Trial Lawyer: Lloyd Paul Stryker is Archetype of Vanishing Courtroom Virtuoso".
The author, Fred Rodell, wrote, "His close friend, the late Alexander Woollcott, once described Stryker as a 'curious mixture of Clarence Darrow, Demosthenes, the late Abe Levy, St. George, William Sylvanus Baxter Jr., and the bull of Bashan.
"[4] Most famously, Stryker was lead defense counsel in the first of two criminal cases for perjury against Alger Hiss (both held in New York City).
Yale Law School's biographical dictionary states, "His skillful, ferocious, and relentless cross-examination of Whittaker Chambers... led to a hung jury.