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| '''Roy Clifton Strickland''' (born ], ]) is a ] in ] (]), ], north of ], who has been an unsuccessful ] candidate in political campaigns in both ] and ]. | |||
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| Strickland was born in ], the seat of ], ]. He became a licensed real estate agent in ], while he was attending college at what is now the ]. Since the late ], he has been involved in real estate as an agent, investor, developer, or contractor. | |||
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| ==Running for the U.S. House, 1972== | |||
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| In ], when he was still twenty-nine and employed by the trucking company Younger Brothers, Inc., in ] in ] near ], Strickland decided to run for the open seat in the ] from the now defunct Eighth Congressional District of Louisiana. Former ] ] (]-]) was the Democratic nominee in the reconstituted district. Strickland, who had become a Republican when he first registered to vote, filed for the ] nomination to face the man considered the "most liberal" of the Louisiana Longs. | |||
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| Thereafter, Dr. S.R. Abramson, a ] from ], the seat of ] in south central Louisiana, also filed as the candidate of ],'s former ]. From the start, the ] made the race impossible for either challenger. Then freshman ] ] and the Democratic state legislature had redrawn the Eighth District in ] to create territory friendly to former Congressman Long, who had served in the position from ]-], until he was unseated by his cousin, ], in the ] Democratic primary. Speedy Long did not seek a fifth term after the district was altered, and Edwards wanted to repay Gillis Long for Long's support of Edwards in the 1971 Democratic runoff primary. Gillis Long himself had been an unsuccessful ] candidate in the primary both that year and in 1963 as well. | |||
| | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|9|22|1942|9|20}} | |||
| | death_place =], Texas, United States | |||
| In recalling the campaign after the passage of more than three decades, Strickland said: "Our strategy was to field as many candidates as possible to run on ]'s coattails and hopefully some would get elected. My memory of Dr. Abramson was that today his thoughts would have been considered of the fringe groups. I think back at some of the campaign literature that I used and shake my head at our positions." | |||
| | resting_place=Forest Park Cemetery in The Woodlands, Texas | |||
| | occupation = Businessman; real estate agent | |||
| Strickland continued: "Regardless of how the district was drawn up, it was a marketing effort on behalf of the party to field as many candidates as possible in order to keep the party effort in the news. As I remember, the ultimate objective was to make sure that ] got elected to Congress in 1972 and, if any miracles happened, then they would happen. My campaign literature emphasized nothing but negatives as I view things today. They were construed as positives back then; that is what makes me shake my head." Strickland said that he did get important financial support from several leading Louisiana Republicans, but he declined to name any of them. He crossed paths with Long only once in the campaign, briefly in Baton Rouge. | |||
| |party=] candidate for the ], 8th District, Louisiana, 1972 | |||
| |footnotes=Strickland sought office in two states, as a ] in ] in 1972, challenging ] for the ], and as an ] in ], Texas, for a ] seat. | |||
| Abramson practiced medicine in Marksville with a group calling itself the Abramson Group. He was considered part of the "Radical Right" at the time. For instance, he criticized Gillis Long for Long's embrace of the federal anti-poverty program begun in the administration of ] ]., who had lost Louisiana to Republican ] of ] in the ] general election. Abramson was living in ] at the time of his death a quarter of a century after the campaign. | |||
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| '''Roy Clifton Strickland''' (September 20, 1942 – September 22, 2010) was a businessman in ], Texas, north of ], who was a pioneer in the development of the ] in the U.S. state of ]. Strickland challenged the ] ], a part of the ] political dynasty, for the ] in 1972. More than a decade later, he ran unsuccessfully for local office as a ] in ]. | |||
| The returns spoke clearly: Louisiana wanted a Long: Long, 72,607 votes (68.6 percent); Abramson, 17,844 (16.8 percent); and Strickland, 15,517 (14.6 percent). | |||
| ==Business entrepreneur== | |||
| In ] ], Younger Brothers transferred Strickland to Houston. He remained with the firm until ], when he cofounded a construction company, Strickland & Smith, Inc. The new company progressed and was ranked in the early ] as one of Houston's fastest growing. However, in ], the good times ended, and the company closed as part of the Houston-area economic crash. It was in that crash that former Texas Governor and ] ], went bankrupt. | |||
| In ], Srickland reentered the transportation industry and joined several prior business associates who had acquired a small company based in ]. He remained there until ]. | |||
| In ], Strickland formed what became CANUSAMEX, Inc., a firm twice named the "Fastest Growing In Houston." In ], it was ranked by <i>Inc. Magazine</i> as the 133rd fastest growing company in the United States. CANUSAMEX, Inc., was a victim of ], ], Strickland explained, because it could not comply with new government regulations which stemmed from the terrorist attacks in ], ], and ]. The company ceased operations in the summer of ]. | |||
| Strickland returned to Vicksburg in ] 2002 and worked with family members to negotiate the merger, acquistion, and consolidation of twelve ] which were sold to ] early in ]. | |||
| He returned to The Woodlands in the fall of ] and activated his Texas real estate license. He is awaiting his broker's license in 2007. | |||
| ==Texas political activities== | |||
| Strickland continued his Republican political activities in Montgomery County. After the suicide of one of the four county commissioners in the middle ], Strickland sought the Republican nomination from a committee organized to select a replacement. When the committee chose someone else, who was part of the GOP hierarchy, Strickland ran unsuccessfully as a ] in the ]. Strickland said that he has "since learned that the most important person is not the candidate or the elected official, it is the person behind them with the checkbook." | |||
| Strickland said that Montgomery County, a Texas Republican stronghold , has manyGOP factions. "There are so many factions here that there is not a clear definition as to what a Republican believes and what he or she does not believe. That being said, do not plan on getting elected to anything unless you are running as a Republican." Strickland is still affiliated with the Republican Party. | |||
| Strickland is divorced and has one daughter, Lindsay Dawn Strickland (born ]). He attends both the ] and ] churches and humorously refers to himself as a "Cathopalian". | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| ==External links== | |||
| Billy Hathorn, "The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980," Master's thesis (1980), Northwestern State University at Natchitoches | |||
| ⚫ | * http://www.roystrickland.com/ | ||
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| Billy Hathorn, email exchange with Roy Strickland, December 2006 | |||
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| Roy C. Strickland | |
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| Born | (1942-09-20)September 20, 1942 Vicksburg Warren County Mississippi, US |
| Died | September 22, 2010(2010-09-22) (aged 68) The Woodlands, Texas, United States |
| Resting place | Forest Park Cemetery in The Woodlands, Texas |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman; real estate agent |
| Political party | Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives, 8th District, Louisiana, 1972 |
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| Strickland sought office in two states, as a Republican in Louisiana in 1972, challenging Gillis William Long for the United States House of Representatives, and as an Independent in Montgomery County, Texas, for a county commission seat. | |
Roy Clifton Strickland (September 20, 1942 – September 22, 2010) 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.
