John Pool

This article is about the politician John Pool. For other people, see John Poole .

John Pool

John Pool (* 16th June 1826 in Elizabeth City , Pasquotank County , North Carolina ; †  16th August 1884 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Republican Party .

Out of school and home schooled, Pool graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1847 . After successfully studying law , he was admitted to the bar in the same year, after which he worked as a lawyer in his hometown until 1856; During this time he was also active in agriculture.

His political career began in 1856 with the election to the North Carolina Senate , of which he was a second time in 1858. At this point he was close to the Whigs , who were already in dissolution ; together with many members of this party he then joined the new opposition party , for which he ran in 1860 as governor of North Carolina. However, he was subject to incumbent John Willis Ellis .

He later joined the Republicans, for whom he sat again in the State Senate between 1864 and 1865. On February 8, 1865, he was elected to the US Senate by the North Carolina Legislature , but he could not take office as a result of the civil war because his state had been deprived of this right of representation. After that happened in 1868, Pool was elected a second time and took his seat in Washington on July 4, 1868. He remained in the Senate until March 3, 1873; he did not stand for re-election. From 1876 to 1877 he served as the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina.

John Pool, whose nephew Walter F. Pool belonged to the US House of Representatives for North Carolina in 1883 , worked after the end of his political activities as a lawyer in Washington, where he died in 1884.

Web links

• John Pool in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• North Carolina History Project