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Senate Years of Service: 1807-1813 Party: Democratic Republican
POPE, John, a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in Prince William County,
Va., in 1770; completed preparatory studies; studied law; moved to Springfield, Ky.; admitted to the
bar and practiced in Washington, Shelby, and Fayette Counties; member, State house of
representatives 1802, 1806-1807; elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate
and served from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1813; served as President pro tempore of the Senate
during the Eleventh Congress; member, State senate 1825-1829; Territorial Governor of Arkansas
1829-1835; resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Ky.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on Territories (Twenty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; died in Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., on July 12, 1845; interment in the cemetery at Springfield, Ky.
BibliographyBaylor, Orval. John Pope, Kentuckian: His
Life and Times, 1770-1845. Cynthiana, Ky.: The Hobson Press, 1943; Blakey, George T.
Rendezvous with Republicanism: John T. Pope vs. Henry Clay in 1816. Indiana Magazine
of History 62 (September 1966): 233-50.
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