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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasJames Jarrell (Jake) PICKLE
(1913-2005)
PICKLE, James Jarrell
(Jake), a Representative from Texas; born in Big Spring,
Howard County, Tex., October 11, 1913; educated in the public
schools of Big Spring, Tex.; B.A., University of Texas, Austin,
Tex., 1938; United States Navy, served three and a half years; area
director, National Youth Administration, 1938-1941; radio business;
public relations executive; director of Texas state Democratic
executive committee, 1957-1960; member of Texas Employment
Commission, 1961-1963; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth
Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of United States Representative Homer Thornberry, and
reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (December 21,
1963-January 3, 1995); not a candidate for reelection to the One
Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994; died on June 18, 2005, in Austin,
Tex.
Bibliography
Pickle, J. J. Jake/Jake Pickle & Peggy Pickle. Foreword
by Ann Richards. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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