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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=James Robert "Jimmy" Strain, M. D.
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Caddo Parish (then at-large seat)
| term_start=1968
| term_end=1972
| preceded=At-large membership:<br>
[[Morley Hudson]]<br>
Taylor Walters O'Hearn<br>
[[Algie D. Brown]]<br>
[[Frank Fulco]]<br>
[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
| succeeded=Switched to single-member district
| birth_date=August 28, 1926
| birth_place =[[Shrevepor]]t, Louisiana
| death_date=December 30, 1973 (aged 47)
| death_plac=[[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]]
| death_cause =[[Suicide]]
| resting_place=Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport
| residence=Shreveport, Louisiana
| occupation=[[Pediatrician]]<br>
[[Real estate]] developer
| spouse =Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain (died 1971)
| children =Three sons and one daughter<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Sr.<br>
Lucy Stewart Strain
| alma_mate=Missing
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
}}
'''James Robert Strain''', known as '''Dr. Jimmy Strain''' (August 28, 1926 – December 30, 1973), was a pediatrician from his native [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party |Democrat]] state represenative for a single term from 1968 to 1972, during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]].
==Background==
Strain was the son of the former Lucy Stewart (1904-1963), a native of Robeline in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] and the first wife of his father,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13745334|title=Lucy Stewart Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> the pediatrician/businessman Thomas E. Strain Sr. (1898-1979). The senior Dr. Strain was part of the founding staff of Tri-State Hospital, since Willis-Knighton Medical Center North, and founded the Strain Babies and Children's Clinic, both in Shreveport. Thomas Strain, and his younger son, Jimmy Strain, were [[real estate]] developers of the Fountain Towers on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport. They were in partnership with [[Virginia Shehee]], later a one-term state senator for Caddo Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13733990|title=Dr. Thomas Everett Strain, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref>
Strain's brother, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Jr. (1924-2015), was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], while their father was a student at the Baylor College of Medicine. The Strains moved to Shreveport in 1926. The brothers practiced pediatrics with their father and<ref name=tstrainjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-strain&pid=174845013&fhid=10218|title=Thomas Strain, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain (1928-2009), the wife of Thomas Strain, Jr. A native of Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]] who was reared in Springhill in northern Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=136601147|title=Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Thomas Strain, Jr., graduate of [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and [[Tulane University]] Medical School in [[New Orleans]], served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and the [[United States Air Force]] in the [[Korean War]].<ref name=tstrainjr/>
Jimmy Strain's wife, the former Dorothy Jane Stahl (1925-1971), a native of [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]], [[Indiana]], was the mother of their son and three daughters. A registered nurse, she suffered from mood depression in the last decade of her life and died in Shreveport of a drug overdose at the age of forty-five.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468329|title=Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December June 9, 2014}}</ref> Two-and-a-half years later, Dr. Strain himself took his own life in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]].<ref name=jstrainfindagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468323|title=Dr. James Robert Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Strain and his wife are interred at Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport.<ref name=jstrainfindagrave/>
==Political life==
Strain won election to the state House of Representatives in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. The entire Democratic slate swept the state, including Caddo Parish. State Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, one of the first two [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the Louisiana House since [[Reconstruction]], was defeated in his bid for a second term at the time Strain was elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' February 7, 1968, p. 1.</ref> Strain did not seek a second term as state representative. Instead he ran in the last closed [[primary]] for governor of Louisiana held on November 6, 1971. He finished last in a field of seventeen candidates with 1,258 votes (0.11 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary returns, November 6, 1971.</ref> Victory ultimately went to Democrat [[Edwin Edwards]], who won the first of his four non-consecutive terms in the office.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strain, Jimmy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Suicides]]
| name=James Robert "Jimmy" Strain, M. D.
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Caddo Parish (then at-large seat)
| term_start=1968
| term_end=1972
| preceded=At-large membership:<br>
[[Morley Hudson]]<br>
Taylor Walters O'Hearn<br>
[[Algie D. Brown]]<br>
[[Frank Fulco]]<br>
[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
| succeeded=Switched to single-member district
| birth_date=August 28, 1926
| birth_place =[[Shrevepor]]t, Louisiana
| death_date=December 30, 1973 (aged 47)
| death_plac=[[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]]
| death_cause =[[Suicide]]
| resting_place=Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport
| residence=Shreveport, Louisiana
| occupation=[[Pediatrician]]<br>
[[Real estate]] developer
| spouse =Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain (died 1971)
| children =Three sons and one daughter<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Sr.<br>
Lucy Stewart Strain
| alma_mate=Missing
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
}}
'''James Robert Strain''', known as '''Dr. Jimmy Strain''' (August 28, 1926 – December 30, 1973), was a pediatrician from his native [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party |Democrat]] state represenative for a single term from 1968 to 1972, during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]].
==Background==
Strain was the son of the former Lucy Stewart (1904-1963), a native of Robeline in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] and the first wife of his father,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13745334|title=Lucy Stewart Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> the pediatrician/businessman Thomas E. Strain Sr. (1898-1979). The senior Dr. Strain was part of the founding staff of Tri-State Hospital, since Willis-Knighton Medical Center North, and founded the Strain Babies and Children's Clinic, both in Shreveport. Thomas Strain, and his younger son, Jimmy Strain, were [[real estate]] developers of the Fountain Towers on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport. They were in partnership with [[Virginia Shehee]], later a one-term state senator for Caddo Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13733990|title=Dr. Thomas Everett Strain, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref>
Strain's brother, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Jr. (1924-2015), was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], while their father was a student at the Baylor College of Medicine. The Strains moved to Shreveport in 1926. The brothers practiced pediatrics with their father and<ref name=tstrainjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-strain&pid=174845013&fhid=10218|title=Thomas Strain, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain (1928-2009), the wife of Thomas Strain, Jr. A native of Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]] who was reared in Springhill in northern Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=136601147|title=Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Thomas Strain, Jr., graduate of [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and [[Tulane University]] Medical School in [[New Orleans]], served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and the [[United States Air Force]] in the [[Korean War]].<ref name=tstrainjr/>
Jimmy Strain's wife, the former Dorothy Jane Stahl (1925-1971), a native of [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]], [[Indiana]], was the mother of their son and three daughters. A registered nurse, she suffered from mood depression in the last decade of her life and died in Shreveport of a drug overdose at the age of forty-five.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468329|title=Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December June 9, 2014}}</ref> Two-and-a-half years later, Dr. Strain himself took his own life in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]].<ref name=jstrainfindagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468323|title=Dr. James Robert Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Strain and his wife are interred at Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport.<ref name=jstrainfindagrave/>
==Political life==
Strain won election to the state House of Representatives in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. The entire Democratic slate swept the state, including Caddo Parish. State Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, one of the first two [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the Louisiana House since [[Reconstruction]], was defeated in his bid for a second term at the time Strain was elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' February 7, 1968, p. 1.</ref> Strain did not seek a second term as state representative. Instead he ran in the last closed [[primary]] for governor of Louisiana held on November 6, 1971. He finished last in a field of seventeen candidates with 1,258 votes (0.11 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary returns, November 6, 1971.</ref> Victory ultimately went to Democrat [[Edwin Edwards]], who won the first of his four non-consecutive terms in the office.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strain, Jimmy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Suicides]]