Jimmy Strain (August 28, 1926 – December 30, 1973) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the

Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...

Life and career

Strain attended

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and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. In 1968, Strain was elected to the

, serving until 1972. In the same year, he moved to

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and was an assistant

pediatrician Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

. Strain died in December 1973 with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, at the age of 47.

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1926 births 1973 deaths 1973 suicides Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians American pediatricians Johns Hopkins University alumni Suicides by firearm in Louisiana {{Louisiana-politician-stub