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==Personal life== Pickering and his former wife, Leisha, have five sons.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090716/NEWS/90716027/Ex-Miss.+politician+s+wife+sues+alleged+mistress |title=Ex-Miss. politician's wife sues alleged mistress |work=Clarion Ledger |date=July 16, 2009 |access-date=July 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5iJmxqlEl?url=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090716/NEWS/90716027/Ex-Miss.%20politician%20s%20wife%20sues%20alleged%20mistress |archive-date=July 16, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Chip Pickering filed for divorce in June 2008.<ref name="fam">{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Elkins |url=https://www.djournal.com/news/update-wife-of-ex-us-rep-pickering-claims-he-had-affair/article_a0c13014-4652-5b24-8154-8bb3db5df9da.html |title=UPDATE: Wife of ex-US Rep. Pickering claims he had affair |work=[[Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal|Daily Journal]] |date=July 16, 2009 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250101204934/https://www.djournal.com/news/update-wife-of-ex-us-rep-pickering-claims-he-had-affair/article_a0c13014-4652-5b24-8154-8bb3db5df9da.html |archive-date=January 1, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Robert E. |editor-last=Emory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ix9zAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Chip+Pickering%22+%22+Leisha%22&pg=PA977 |title=Cultural Sociology of Divorce; An Encyclopedia |page=977 |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-4129-9958-8 |publisher=[[Sage Publishing]]}}</ref> On July 16, 2009, Pickering's estranged wife filed a complaint in Hinds County (Mississippi) Circuit Court under Mississippi's [[alienation of affection]] law, alleging that Pickering and his college sweetheart Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd had a long-standing adulterous extramarital relationship during his congressional career in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jacob M. |last=Appel |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hate-the-husband-sue-the_b_311419 |title=Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress! |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=May 25, 2011 |orig-date=March 18, 2010}}</ref> Creekmore Byrd is a member of Mississippi's Creekmore family that founded of the [[Cellular South]] telephone company.<ref name="fam" /> She further alleged in ''Pickering v. Pickering'' that Creekmore-Byrd insisted that Pickering turn down Mississippi Gov. [[Haley Barbour]]'s 2007 offer of former Sen. Trent Lott's Senate seat so that Pickering could divorce his wife and the two of them be together.<ref>{{cite news |title=A decade of congressional sex scandals |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jun-08-la-na-weiner-list-20110608-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=June 24, 2021 |date=June 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bresnahan |first1=John |title=Pickering's wife sues alleged mistress |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/pickerings-wife-sues-alleged-mistress-025067 |work=Politico |access-date=June 24, 2021 |language=en |date=July 16, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Mott |first1=Ronni |title=Wife Says Pickering's Affair Ended Career, Two Marriages |url=https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/jul/16/wife-says-pickerings-affair-ended-career-two/ |magazine=[[Jackson Free Press]] |access-date=June 24, 2021 |language=en |date=July 16, 2009}}</ref> According to [[Max Blumenthal]] at ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', "In the end, Pickering chose his mistress over his congressional career and his wife."<ref>{{cite news|last=Blumenthal|first=Max|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-gop-sex-diary|title=The Secret GOP Sex Diary|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=July 14, 2017|orig-year=July 23, 2009|access-date=October 21, 2020}}</ref> Pickering's family had a close relationship with [[Antonin Scalia]].<ref name="auto2" />
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