Roy C. Strickland
Businessperson, Politician
1942 – 2010
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Who was Roy C. Strickland?
Roy Clifton Strickland was a businessman in The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston, who was a pioneer in the development of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Strickland challenged the Democrat Gillis William Long, a part of the Long political dynasty, for the United States House of Representatives in 1972. More than a decade later, he ran unsuccessfully for local office as a write-in candidate in Texas.
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- Born
- Sep 20, 1942
Vicksburg - Also known as
- Roy Strickland
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vicksburg
- Texas
- Louisiana
- Died
- Sep 22, 2010
The Woodlands
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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