Terms of Service

• House, 55th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/8/1957 - 1/13/1959
  Democrat
  
• House, 54th Legislature
  1/11/1955 - 1/8/1957
  Democrat
  
• House, 53rd Legislature
  1/13/1953 - 1/11/1955
  Democrat
  

(1) Lawyer, manufacturer. "55th Texas Legislature: 20 Senators, 62 Representatives of 55th Legislature Are Lawyers; Other Legislators Have Varied Occupations, Jobs," Volume 20, Number 1, January 1957, pp. 6, 7, 48. Texas Bar Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

• Photograph. Joe R. Pool, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Joe R. Pool, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Joe R. Pool, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• POOL, Joe Richard (1911-1968). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
• United States Army, Special Investigator, Air Corps Intelligence, 1943-1945. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
• Joe Richard Pool, birth date 2/18/1911 in Texas; death date 7/14/1968 in Houston, Harris County; served in World War II; Congressman, U.S. government. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• Memorial, March 1969, p. 207. Texas Bar Journal .
• Mentioned in Curtis Bishop, "Historic Names in the 54th: Descendants of many who made early Texas history carry on family traditions of service to their State as members of the 54th Legislature," Volume XVI, Number 1, June 1955, pp. 37, 38, 40. Texas Parade .

Committee Information

• 55th R.S. - 1957
• Conservation and Reclamation  
• Industrial and Occupational Safety Commission  
• Insurance  
• Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• Privileges, Suffrage and Elections  
• State Affairs  
• 54th R.S. - 1955
• Appropriations  
• Conservation and Reclamation  
• Insurance (Vice Chair) 
• Interstate Cooperation  
• Public Printing  
• 53rd R.S. - 1953
• El Paso Investigating (Chair) 
• Interstate Cooperation (Vice Chair) 
• Municipal and Private Corporations  
• Public Lands and Buildings  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• State Hospitals and Special Schools