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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | J.J. "Jake" Pickle |
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Austin, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 11, 1913
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| Died | June 18, 2005
(91 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | David
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| Info | James Jarrell "Jake" Pickle
born in Big Spring, Howard County, Tex., October 11, 1913; educated in the public schools of Big Spring, Tex.; University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1938; area director, National Youth Administration, 1938-1941; served three and a half years with the Navy in the Pacific during the Second World War; in 1946 entered the radio business in Austin, Tex.; engaged in public relations and advertising business, 1948-1956; director of Texas State Democratic executive committee, 1957-1960; appointed a member of Texas Employment Commission in 1961, resigning September 27, 1963, to be a candidate for Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, December 21, 1963, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Homer Thornberry; reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses, and served from December 21, 1963, to January 3, 1995; not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress.
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