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1963 –
The tie, exactly: James Steven Strickland Jr. was born October 22, 1963, in Mishawaka. His family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and every other line of his record is Memphis: this is a birth-tie entry, printed at birth-tie strength, and it is a quiet recovery — the standard Mishawaka compilations do not carry him.
The course: Strickland graduated from Christian Brothers High School in Memphis in 1982 and took both his bachelor's degree and his law degree at the University of Memphis. He clerked for Justice William H. D. Fones of the Tennessee Supreme Court, practiced at Glankler Brown, and in 1998 opened the firm of Kustoff & Strickland with David Kustoff. He served on the Memphis City Council from 2008 to 2015, then was elected mayor on October 8, 2015, with 42 percent of the vote against the incumbent, A C Wharton — the first white candidate to win a Memphis mayoral election in twenty-four years. He served two terms as the city's sixty-fourth mayor, from January 1, 2016, to January 1, 2024, and in 2024 became dean of the University of Memphis's Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. None of that makes him less born in Mishawaka; none of the birth makes Memphis less his city. Both are printed.
Sources:
- Wikipedia, "Jim Strickland (politician)," read November 2026 (birth at Mishawaka; Memphis course; mayoral terms)
- University of Memphis School of Law, dean's biography and curriculum vitae (education; council and mayoral service; deanship from 2024)
- Memphis magazine (the 2015 election; "born in Indiana")