Raymond D. Strother (1940–2022)

Except for a brief stint with the Associated Press in college and graduate school, RAYMOND D. STROTHER has been "involved in political hackdom all my adult life." He began with a Baton Rouge firm in the 1960s and in 1980 opened Raymond D. Strother, LTD, in Washington, D.C. Today he is president of afficher plus Strother, Duffy, Strother and lives in Washington and Montana. He is a former president of the American Association of Political Consultants, a former fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a member of the Louisiana State University Journalism Hall of Fame, the recipient of a 2001 Pollie Award for Best Political Television, and the author of the political novel Cottonwood afficher moins