Family
Carole Stewart Keeton was born in Austin, the second child and only daughter of W. Page Keeton and the former Madge Anna Stewart. Her father was the longtime dean of the University of Texas Law School and a renowned expert on tort law. A section of 26th Street near the UT campus was renamed "Dean Keeton Street" in his honor.
Strayhorn's first marriage was to attorney Barr McClellan, whom she divorced in 1978 during her first term as mayor. In 1983, she married Curtis H. (Hill) Rylander; that marriage ended in divorce in 1995. She married high school sweetheart Ed Strayhorn in 2003. Strayhorn told reporters that Ed Strayhorn proposed to her while both were attending the University of Texas, but her parents thought she was too young to get married.
She is the mother of:
- Scott McClellan, former George W. Bush White House Press Secretary and who was Strayhorn's campaign manager three times;
- Mark McClellan, former Medicare director and former Food and Drug Administrator;
- Brad McClellan, Strayhorn's gubernatorial campaign manager and former Texas Assistant Attorney General
- Dudley McClellan, attorney for e-MDs, Inc., and Brad's identical twin.
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