Joe R. Pool

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Joe R. Pool

Joseph Richard Pool (born February 18, 1911 in Fort Worth , Texas , †  July 14, 1968 in Houston , Texas) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1968 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joe Pool attended public schools in Dallas and then studied at the University of Texas between 1929 and 1933 . After a subsequent law degree at Southern Methodist University and his admission to the bar in 1937, he began to work in this profession in Dallas. During the Second World War he served in the US Air Force Intelligence Service (USAAF) from 1943 to 1945 . After the war he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1953 and 1958 he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives .

In 1958 and 1960 Pool ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 1962 congressional elections , however, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created 23rd  constituency of Texas , where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1963. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 14, 1968. Since 1967 he represented there as the successor of Lindley Beckworth the third district of his state. Pool's time as a congressman was shaped by the events of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War .

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SURNAME Pool, Joe R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pool, Joe Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth , Texas
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1968
Place of death Houston , Texas