17 Facts About Chip Pickering

Chip Pickering was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to attorney Charles W Pickering.

Chip Pickering is a cousin of Stacey Pickering, former State Auditor of Mississippi, Mississippi State Senator, and executive director of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board.

Chip Pickering graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi where he was a legacy member of the Eta chapter of Sigma Chi.

Chip Pickering went on to receive a Master of Business Administration from Baylor University in 1989.

Chip Pickering served as a Southern Baptist missionary in Hungary, after the Hungarian government ceased its persecution of religious believers.

Chip Pickering served as a staff member of Senator Trent Lott between 1992 and 1996.

Chip Pickering helped shape the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first major overhaul of US telecoms law since 1934.

Chip Pickering defeated eight other Republicans in the primary and won the general election over Democrat John Arthur Eaves Jr.

In 1998, as chairman of the Basic Research Subcommittee of the US House Science Committee, Chip Pickering helped oversee the transition from a government research internet to a commercial internet, as well as the establishment of internet domain names, registries, and multi-stakeholder governance.

In 2002, Chip Pickering contributed to legislation included in the 2002 Farm Bill, which doubled the funding for the conservation reserve, the wetland reserve programs, and other conservation initiatives administered by the US Department of Agriculture.

From 2003 to 2007, Chip Pickering served as vice-chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

In January 2009, Chip Pickering retired from the House of Representatives.

Chip Pickering serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi's Department of Public Leadership Policy, where he teaches a bi-monthly seminar class, PPL 211: Political Campaigns.

In 2014, Chip Pickering joined Incompas, where he currently serves as the CEO.

Chip Pickering made a brief appearance in the 2006 film, Borat, as a speaker at a church that Borat attended.

On July 16,2009, Chip Pickering's estranged wife filed a complaint in Hinds County Circuit Court under Mississippi's alienation of affection law, alleging that Chip Pickering and his college sweetheart Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd had a long-standing adulterous extramarital relationship during his congressional career in Washington, DC Creekmore Byrd is a member of Mississippi's Creekmore family that founded of the Cellular South telephone company.

Chip Pickering further alleged in Pickering v Pickering that Creekmore-Byrd insisted that Pickering turn down Mississippi Gov.