Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 116.  Washington County.

JOHN POPE, United States senator, was born in Prince William county,
Virginia, in 1770, came to Kentucky in his youth, and was a member of the
Dr. Priestly school at Bardstown, where so many Kentucky youths who
achieved fame received their early training.  Having lost an arm in a
mill accident, he turned his attention at an early day to the law.  He
settled in Shelby county, and in 1802 was elected to represent that county
in the legislature.  Removing to Fayette county, he was elected its
representative to the legislature in 1806, and was elected in 1807 to
the United States senate, where he served a full term of six years.  He
was opposed to the war of 1812 with England and spoke against it in the
senate.  During his incumbency of this office he had as his colleagues
Henry Clay, John Buckner Thurston and George M. Bibb, each of whom
served a portion of a term.  Evidencing the appreciation in which he
was held, he was president pro tem by choice of the senate in 1810 and
1811.  In 1816 he was appointed by Governor Gabriel Slaughter secretary
of state; was presidential elector for Kentucky in 1801, and again in
1821; from 1825 to 1829 was a member of the state senate; from 1829 to
1835 governor of the territory of Arkansas; and from 1837 to 1843 was a
member of congress.  He was an able lawyer and an astute politician, and
his busy life was ended July 12, 1845, at his home in Washington county.

Pope Priestly Clay Thurston Bibb
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Nelson-KY Fayette-KY Shelby-KY Prince_William-VA AR

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