Tom Pickett

Thomas Augustus "Tom" Pickett ( born August 14, 1906 in Travis, Falls County, Texas, † June 7, 1980 in Leesburg, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1945 and 1952 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Pickett attended the public schools in Palestine and then studied at the University of Texas at Austin. After studying law and his 1929 was admitted to the bar he began in Palestine to work in this profession. Between 1931 and 1935, Pickett Attorney in Anderson County; 1935 to 1945, he held this post in the third judicial district of his state. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1944, Pickett was in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nat Patton on January 3, 1945. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on 30 June 1952 at the Congress. During his time in Congress, the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War and domestic political prelude to the civil rights movement fell.

Between 1952 and 1961, Pickett was Vice President of the National Coal Association; 1961 to 1967, he served as Vice President of the Association of American Railroads. He spent his life in Leesburg, where he died on June 7, 1980.