Early Life and Education
Strickland was born in Vicksburg in Warren County in western Mississippi, to Clyde Cotton Strickland and the former Erna Voss.
Strickland graduated in 1960 from Jet High School in Warren County, Mississippi and enlisted in the United States Navy, having served for six years. He briefly attended college at what became the University of New Orleans. From 1968 to 1978, he was involved in selling insurance door-to-door, working for trucking companies, including Mississippi Fast Freight, Matlach, and Younger Brothers, in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas, having progressed upward from entry-level positions. Decades later, he began selling real estate in Texas.
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