|
Joe Richard Pool (February 18, 1911 – July 14, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Texas. Joe Pool was born in Fort Worth, Texas He graduated from Oak Cliff High School (now W. H. Adamson High School) in the Dallas Independent School District and attended the University of Texas from 1929 to 1933. In 1937, he graduated from Southern Methodist University School of Law, was admitted to the Texas bar, and commenced the practice of law in Dallas, Texas. During World War II, he served with the United States Army from 1943 to 1945 as a special investigator in the Intelligence section of the Army Air Corps. After the war, he resumed the practice of law. He entered politics as a Democrat, and was elected a state representative in 1952. He was re-elected in 1954 and 1956, serving from 1953 to 1958. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative from the 5th District of Texas in 1958, losing in the primary to Barefoot Sanders. He ran again in 1960, winning the primary, but lost in the general election to Republican incumbent Bruce Alger.〔''Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1966'', Benjamin Guthrie, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. p 43〕 In the 1960 Congressional reapportionment, Texas received an additional U.S. House seat, but the districts were not redrawn and an at-large seat seat was created. Pool won the Democratic nomination for this seat and was elected to the Eighty-eighth Congress.〔''Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962'', Benjamin Guthrie, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. p 37〕 He was re-elected to the Eighty-ninth Congress in 1964.〔''Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1964'', Benjamin Guthrie, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. p 43〕 However, in ''Wesberry v. Sanders'' (1964), the Supreme Court banned at-large Congressional districts. Texas redrew its districts, and Pool opted to run for the 3rd District north of Dallas. He was re-elected from this district to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966.〔''Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1966'', Benjamin Guthrie, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. p 41〕 Pool served in Congress from January 3, 1963 until his death from a heart attack in Houston, Texas on July 14, 1968. He was interred in Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. ==Memorials== Joe Pool Lake in Dallas, Tarrant and Ellis Counties, is named for the Congressman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe R. Pool」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|