Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland served as governor of Ohio from 2006-2010. He ran for US Senate in 2016 but lost the general election.
Ted Strickland was born in Lucasville, OH, one of nine children. He received his bachelor’s degree from Asbury College in Kentucky in 1963. He went on to attend the Asbury Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity. He continued his studies at the University of Kentucky, receiving a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology in 1980.
Strickland has served as a minister, a psychologist, and a college professor. He was an administrator at a Methodist children’s home, an assistant professor of psychology at Shawnee State University, and a consulting psychologist at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF).
In 1992, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he helped author the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a federal initiative that now provides health insurance to millions of children of working parents.
Ran for:
US Senate
Location: Ohio
Status: Lost general election