district succeeded death_place death_date children birth_place religion party term_end preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title state name
10th lloyd doggett austin , texas 18 june 2005 peggy pickle big spring , texas methodist democrat january 3 , 1995 homer thornberry october 11 , 1913 december 21 , 1963 ella nora critz beryl bolton mccarroll j. j. pickle
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j. j. pickle

james jarrell pickle -lrb- october 11 , 1913 -- june 18 , 2005 -rrb- , also known as `` j.j. ` jake ' pickle '' , was a united states representative from the 10th congressional district of texas from 1963 to 1995 .
pickle was born in roscoe , texas .
he acquired his nickname jake from a mischievous character he portrayed in a family play when he was four years old .
pickle was an eagle scout and recipient of the distinguished eagle scout award from the boy scouts of america .
pickle attended the public schools in big spring and received his bachelor of arts from the university of texas at austin where he was a member of the 1934 southwest conference championship swimming team and the student body president as a senior in 1937 .
he was also a member of the friar society .
pickle was introduced by future governor john connally to congressman lyndon johnson , who served as his political mentor .
he assisted the latter in his 1940 election campaign and assisted lady bird johnson in running the congressional office .
when the united states entered wwii , pickle joined the navy as a gunnery officer and was stationed on the uss st. louis and the uss miami , surviving three torpedo attacks .
when the war ended , he , johnson , and connally helped found a radio station -lrb- kvet -rrb- in austin , texas .
after 10 years in the advertising business , he joined the democratic election executive committee of texas in 1957 .
from 1961 to 1963 , pickle was a member of the texas employment commission , since renamed the texas workforce commission .
he served under appointment of governor price daniel .
pickle was elected as a democrat to the 88th congress , by special election , to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of united states representative homer thornberry , who became a u.s. district judge .
pickle was reelected 15 times before retiring at the conclusion of his 1993-94 term .
his campaign trademark was a `` squeaky pickle '' rubber toy he handed out to those he met in area parades .
while in the house , pickle rose through the ranks to become the third ranking democrat on the house ways and means committee .
he was one of only six southern congressmen to vote for the civil rights act of 1964 , and went on to play a key role in passing major social security reform legislation in 1983 to save the system from insolvency .
the reforms increased the payroll tax rate , slowly increased the full benefit retirement age to 67 and taxed some of the benefits .
he considered this legislation his greatest accomplishment .
pickle was able to steer research money to the university of texas , and today the university 's j. j. pickle research campus is named in his honor .
he was influential in the city of austin , as well , most notably for relocating austin 's main airport from robert mueller municipal airport to austin-bergstrom international airport .
he was also instrumental in bringing the sematech and the mcc consortia to austin .
before pickle left for world war ii in 1942 , he married ella nora `` sugar '' critz .
they had one daughter together .
critz died in 1952 and pickle married beryl bolton mccarroll in 1960 .
pickle was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991 and lymphoma in 2001 .
he died at his home in austin on june 18 , 2005 of complications from his cancer and is interred at the texas state cemetery there .
peggy pickle was jake pickle 's only daughter .
she still makes contributions to the university of texas at austin on her father 's behalf .
in 1997 , jake and peggy pickle wrote a book together called `` jake '' with a foreword by former texas governor ann richards .
