 Jimmy Strain

James Robert Strain, known as Dr. Jimmy Strain (August 28, 1926 – December 30, 1973), was a pediatrician from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for a single term from 1968 to 1972, during the second administration of Governor John McKeithen.Strain was the son of the former Lucy Stewart (1904-1963), a native of Robeline in Natchitoches Parish and the first wife of his father, the pediatrician/businessman Thomas E. Strain Sr. (1898-1979).