Roy C. Strickland | |
Birth Date: | 20 September 1942 |
Birth Place: | Vicksburg Warren County Mississippi, US |
Death Place: | The Woodlands, Texas, United States |
Resting Place: | Forest Park Cemetery in The Woodlands, Texas |
Occupation: | Businessman; real estate agent |
Party: | Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives, 8th District, Louisiana, 1972 |
Footnotes: | 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.