Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

JUDGE ALFRED THRUSTON POPE was born July, 22, 1842, on Jefferson street,
between Sixth and Seventh streets, Louisville, Ky., in the house where his
grandfather and other members of the family first suggested Gen. Jackson
for the Presidency.  He was reared at his father's country place, which
commands a beautiful view of the Ohio River and is situated three miles
west of Louisville.
     He was educated at Bethany College and Indiana University; graduated
at the Louisville Law School under Chancellors Logan and Pirtle and Judge
Bullock; was admitted to the bar before attaining his majority, speedily
acquired a lucrative practice and took high rank in his profession. In 1867
three years after graduation, he was unanimously chosen as the orator and
delivered the Alumni address at the Law School.  He was elected without
opposition a member of the General Council of Louisville, and, declining a
re-election, was nominated in 1869 by the Democrats for the Legislature,
to which, after an exciting and interesting canvass, he was elected over
the Hon. Lewis M. Dembitz.  The following year he was elected without a
dissenting voice by the delegates to the State convention as elector for
the Congressional District, which embraced the City of Louisville and the
counties of Jefferson, Henry, Oldham and Owen, and his speeches in that
canvass enhanced his reputation.  In 1871 he was unanimously elected to a
seat in the Kentucky Senate.  After two years' service in the Senate,
which merited and received the approval of his constituents, and where,
although the youngest member of that body, being barely eligible when
elected, he served upon the most important committees, and took position
with the oldest and most influential members.  His repugnance, however, for
politics and political methods and his aversion to public office was so
intense that he resigned an unexpired term of two years in the Senate and
returned at once to the practice of the law.
     Judge Pope has always taken a warm interest in all matters pertaining
to the educational interests of the city, serving as a trustee of the
Louisville Public Schools, of the Kentucky School for the Blind, and in
other like capacities.
     In 1878, at the age of thirty-six, his friends announced him as a
candidate for the Louisville Law and Equity Court, and although his
opponent was a most worthy and popular gentleman of mature years, then
holding an office of the greatest political power and patronage under the
city government and who is now serving a second term as Chancellor of the
Louisville Chancery Court, Judge Pope was elected.  At the time of his
election he was the youngest Chancellor who ever sat upon the bench in
Kentucky.  He discharged each and every duty of the high position with
unquestioned probity, courage and ability for a period of four years, when,
being upon a prolonged tour on the Continent with his family, he resigned
the unexpired term of two years, and also retired from the practice of law.
     Judge Pope being no longer in public life, is quietly enjoying that
domesticity congenial of his tastes, surrounded by the refinements which
travel and affluence command and the respect and esteem of the community
in which he was born and in which he has passed his life.
     On the 26th of September, 1865, he was married to Mary Tyler Pope,
the daughter of Col. Curran Pope, by whom he has three sons, Curran Pope,
Pendleton Pope and Alfred Thruston Pope, Jr.

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