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Oil on canvas, Jason Bouldin, 1997, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives |
BROOKS, Jack Bascom, a Representative from Texas; born in Crowley, Acadia Parish, La.,
December 18, 1922; moved with his family to Beaumont, Tex., in 1927; attended
public schools and Lamar Junior College, Beaumont, Tex., 1939-1941; B. J.,
University of Texas at Austin, 1943; enlisted as a private in the United States
Marine Corps November 7, 1942, serving overseas twenty-three and one-half
months on Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, and in North China, and discharged as a
first lieutenant April 23, 1946; colonel in the United States Marine Corps
Reserve, 1946-1972; member of State house of representatives 1946-1950;
graduated from the law school of the University of Texas in 1949; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Beaumont, Tex.;
owns and operates a farm; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the
twenty succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1995); one of the
managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against Alcee Lamar Hastings, judge of the United
States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1989 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings against Walter L. Nixon, judge of the United States District Court
for the District Court of Mississippi; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to
the One Hundred Fourth Congress; chairman, Joint Committee on Congressional
Operations (Ninety-second and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committee on
Government Operations (Ninety-fourth through One Hundredth Congresses),
Committee on the Judiciary (One Hundred First through One Hundred Third
Congresses).
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