Olin E. Teague

Olin Earl "Tiger" Teague (April 6, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American politician and World War II veteran who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 6th congressional district as a Democrat for 32 years, from 1946 to 1978.

[2] He was one of the majority of the Texan delegation to decline to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto[3] opposing the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.

[8][9] He proposed 50 amendments in Congress, including: Providing for the election of President and Vice President; to abolish the electoral college (1953); Provides representation for the people of the District of Columbia (1957); Relative to appointment of postmasters (1959); Proposal with respect to the appointment of postmasters (1961); Empowering Congress to grant representation in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice President to the people of the District of Columbia (1950, 1951, and 1953); Equal rights regardless of sex (1967).

In 1956, he helped overhaul the survivor's benefits, with the creation of the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation.

The VA also presents the annual Olin E. Teague Award for contributions to improving the quality of life of disabled veterans.

Teague (center, front row) with the Congressional freshman class of 1947. Future presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon can be seen to his right in the back row.
Rep. Olin Teague and other members of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics visited the Marshall Space Flight Center on March 9, 1962, to gather first-hand information of the nation's space exploration program.