15 Facts About Raymond Strother

Raymond D Strother was a nationally known Democratic political consultant, originally from Port Arthur, Texas.

Raymond Strother won a track scholarship to Northwestern State University, then Northwestern State College, in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Raymond Strother transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

In time, Strother became a consultant to US Senators Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, Russell B Long, John Breaux and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, John Stennis of Mississippi, Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Gary Hart of Colorado, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Al Gore of Tennessee, and many others.

Raymond Strother worked for gubernatorial candidates Bill Clinton of Arkansas, John McKeithen, Edwin Edwards, and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, Mark Wells White of Texas, Bill O'Neil of Connecticut, Rudy Perpich of Minnesota, and Roy Barnes of Georgia.

Raymond Strother then worked on the Super Tuesday states in 1988 for Al Gore, who ran well only in parts of the American South.

Raymond Strother garnered awards for his documentaries about Senator Bentsen, a former US representative and later the Clinton administration Secretary of the Treasury, and US Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a figure in the civil rights movement.

Raymond Strother was named to the LSU Journalism Hall of Fame, the American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame, and, in 2013, to the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, located some thirty miles east of Natchitoches, where his college education had begun in 1958.

Raymond Strother was a former president and chairman of the board of the American Association of Political Consultants.

Raymond Strother served on the Board of Visitors of the LSU College of Journalism.

In 1991, Raymond Strother penned a novel, Cottonwood, the story of a dishonest political consultant.

In 2000, Raymond Strother was an analyst on the Public Broadcasting Service for the Cheney-Lieberman vice presidential debate.

Raymond Strother wrote essays for the Atlanta Constitution, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Washington Post.

Raymond Strother was married to the former Sandy Peck, a native of Port Arthur.

Raymond Strother died from cancer in Billings on October 1,2022, at the age of 81.