James P. Pope’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American politician
Was Politician 
Lawyer 
From United States of America 
Type Law 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth 31 March 1884, Jonesboro, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Death 23 January 1966, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.
(aged 81 years)
Politics Democratic Party

James Pinckney Pope (March 31, 1884 – January 23, 1966) was a Democratic politician from Idaho. He was mayor of Boise for four years and a one-term United States Senator, serving from 1933 to 1939.

Early life and career

Born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Pope graduated from Louisiana Industrial Institute (now Louisiana Tech University) in Ruston in 1906 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909 where he became a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. He was admitted to the bar then moved west to Idaho to practice law in Boise, and served as city attorney, assistant attorney general of Idaho, and a member of the board of education of Boise. Pope was mayor of Boise from 1929 to 1933.

United States Senate

He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932, defeating Republican incumbent John W. Thomas of Gooding. From 1934-36, Pope was a member of the Nye Committee. In 1938, he was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary by Congressman D. Worth Clark of Pocatello, who went on to win the general election.

Pope was a stalwart of the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal, and it was suggested that Idaho’s senior senator William Borah, the dean of the U.S. Senate, felt upstaged at times and had a hand in Pope’s loss to the more conservative Clark in the August primary.

U.S. Senate elections in Idaho (Class III): Results 1932
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
1932 James P. Pope 103,020 55.6% John W. Thomas 78,325 42.3% Earl A. Oliason Liberty 3,801 2.1%

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After Congress

In 1939, Pope was appointed a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Roosevelt and served in that capacity until 1951. He continued to practice law and serve on several boards in Tennessee after that.

Pope relocated to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1963 and died there at age 81 in 1966. He and his wife, Pauline Ruth Horn Pope (1887–1957), are buried in Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee. They had two sons, Ross P. Pope and George A. Pope.

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