James Pinckney Pope

James Pinckney Pope (around 1935)

James Pinckney Pope (born March 31, 1884 in Jonesboro , Jackson Parish , Louisiana , † January 23, 1966 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American politician and US Senator for the state of Idaho between 1933 and 1939.

Career

James Pope was born on a farm near Jonesboro. He attended community school. He then graduated in 1906 from the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston , Louisiana . He then made in 1909 his Bachelor of Laws at the law faculty of the University of Chicago in Chicago , Illinois . That same year, he applied to practice bar in Idaho, and when he got it, he opened a law firm in Boise .

Pope later served as assistant tax collector for the US Treasury in 1916. He was also prosecutor for Boise between 1916 and 1917. He rose quickly, however, and then served as the Assistant Attorney General of Idaho between 1918 and 1919.

Pope was a member of the Boise Education Committee between 1924 and 1929. He also held the office of mayor there between 1929 and 1933. He resigned after serving as Senator for the Democratic Party in the Congress had been elected. He stayed there from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1939. He ran for re-election to the Senate in 1938, but failed. After retiring from the Senate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him director of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1939 . He then carried out this activity until 1951. He then joined a law firm in Knoxville , Tennessee . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Federal Savings & Loan Association in Knoxville.

James Pinckney Pope moved to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1963, where he lived until his death on January 23, 1966. He was buried in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Knoxville.

literature

• Dictionary of American Biography ; Sims, Robert C. "James P. Pope, Senator from Idaho." Idaho Yesterdays 15 (Fall 1971): 9-15.

Web links

• James Pinckney Pope in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)