J. J. Pickle

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. Interment at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.