Charles W. Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Pickering was active in the Democratic Party of the State of Mississippi in the early 1960s, but switched to the Mississippi Republican Party in 1964. He claimed at the time that "the people of [Mississippi] were heaped with humiliation and embarrassment at the Democratic Convention" in Atlantic City after the national Democratic Party seated two civil rights activists from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party with the all-white delegation Pickering supported. Pickering, along with other disaffected segregationist Democrats, played a key role in building the Republican Party in Mississippi in the following years.[1]
Judge Pickering was appointed and served as City Prosecuting Attorney of Laurel, Mississippi and was elected and served four years as County Prosecuting Attorney of Jones County, Mississippi. He served briefly as Laurel City Judge, 1969, and was elected to two terms in the Mississippi Senate, 1972 to 1980. In 1979, Pickering was the Republican nominee for state Attorney General and lost by a narrow margin. He and also served as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1976 to 1978.
In 1976, Judge Pickering chaired the subcommittee of the Republican Party's Platform Committee that called for a Constitutional amendment that would have overruled Roe v. Wade.
In 1984, when Judge Pickering was the president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, he presided over a meeting where the Convention adopted a resolution calling for legislation to outlaw abortion except when necessary to preserve a woman's life.
Charles W. Pickering, Sr. was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on October 2, 1990 by President of the United States George H. W. Bush.