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Carole Keeton Strayhorn (1939- ) is a Texas politician who is currently serving as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Elected to the comptroller's post as a Republican, Strayhorn is currently an running as an independent candidate for Texas governor against GOP incumbent Rick Perry. If successful, Strayhorn would be the first Independent candidate elected to the post since Sam Houston in 1859.

Strayhorn is notable for several "firsts" in Austin and Texas politics. She is the first woman elected as Mayor of Austin, Texas and the first Austin mayor elected to three consecutive terms. She was the first woman elected to the Texas Railroad Commission and the first woman elected as comptroller. She also was the first woman to serve as president of the Austin school board and as president of the Austin Community College board. Houston; Dallas; San Antonio; Austin; El Paso; Fort Worth; Arlington; Corpus Christi; Plano; Garland.

Family

Carole Stewart Keeton was born September 13, 1939) in Austin. She is the second child and only daughter of Werdner Page Keeton and Madge Anna Stewart. Her father was the longtime Dean of the University of Texas Law School and a renowned expert on tort law.

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.