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==Political life==
==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.
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 W. O'Hearn]] 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.
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