Charles W. Pickering
| Charles W. Pickering | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |
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In office January 16, 2004 – December 8, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Henry Politz |
| Succeeded by | Leslie Southwick |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi | |
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In office October 1, 1990 – January 16, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Walter Nixon |
| Succeeded by | Keith Starrett |
| Chairperson of the Mississippi Republican Party | |
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In office 1976–1978 |
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| Preceded by | Clarke Reed |
| Succeeded by | Michael Retzer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Charles Willis Pickering May 29, 1937 Laurel, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (1958–1964) Republican (1964–present) |
| Alma mater |
Jones County Junior College University of Mississippi |
| Religion | Baptist |
Charles Willis Pickering, Sr. (born May 29, 1937), is a retired federal judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and briefly on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
A native of Laurel, Pickering received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He earned his LL.B. in 1961 from the University of Mississippi School of Law.
Active in the early 1960s in the Democratic Party, Pickering switched affiliation in 1964 to the Mississippi Republican Party. He said at the time that "the people of [Mississippi] were heaped with humiliation and embarrassment at the Democratic Convention" in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This was during the period when blacks were still effectively disfranchised in Mississippi, as they had been since prior to passage of the 1890 state constitution and other laws designed to block them from registering to vote. Civil rights activists had worked to register voters and founded the MFDP to show that African Americans wanted to vote. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed with bipartisan support in Congress and signed by President Johnson; the law authorized federal oversight and enforcement of voting in states in which minorities were historically underrepresented as voters.
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