Nathaniel Pope

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Nathaniel Pope

Nathaniel Pope (born January 5, 1784 in Louisville , Kentucky , †  January 22, 1850 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American lawyer and politician . In 1817 and 1818 he represented the Illinois Territory as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Early years

Nathaniel Pope came from a well-known family of politicians. He was the younger brother of US Senator John Pope (1770-1845) and a cousin of Ninian Edwards (1775-1833), who was also a US Senator and Governor of Illinois. Nathaniel Pope's son John (1822-1892) was a Civil War general in the Union Army ; his nephew Daniel Pope Cook (1794-1827) was a Congressman for Illinois.

Pope attended Transylvania University in Lexington . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he started from 1804 in Ste. Genevieve to work in this profession. Soon after, he moved to Springfield , Illinois. Between 1809 and 1816 he was a managing official of the local government.

In the congressional election of 1816 , Pope was elected as a delegate of his territory to the US Congress in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Benjamin Stephenson on March 4, 1817 . He held this office until November 30, 1818, when the territory was dissolved. At this point the new state of Illinois was established. During his time as Congress delegate, Pope was involved in defining the northern border of the new state. He was instrumental in ensuring that, among other things, the area of ​​the future city of Chicago came to Illinois.

Between November 30, 1818 and March 3, 1819 Pope worked as a registrar ( register ) at the land registry in Edwardsville . From 1819 until his death, he was a federal judge in the Illinois Federal District Court . In 1824 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate. Nathaniel Pope died in St. Louis on January 22, 1850.

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SURNAME Pope, Nathaniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1850
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri