Saintclair-Etowah-Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Pope, Burwell T. January 7 1813 - May 8 1868
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Author: Willis Brewer (Thaddeus Constantine Willis Brewer)
Burwell T. Pope resided in this county, but was born in Oglethorpe County, 
Georgia, Jan. 7, 1813.  His parents were Wiley Pope and Sarah Davis.  
Graduating at Athens, he read law under Judge Clayton, and was enrolled as an 
attorney in 1836.  A year later he came to this State, and located at Wetumka, 
where he practiced law.  In 1844 he came to Ashville, where he resided and 
pursued his profession till he removed to Gadsden in 1867.  He was elected to 
congress in 1865 over Mr. James Sheid, but was refused his seat.  In 1867 he 
was appointed judge of the circuit court.  While on the bench in the courthouse 
at Jacksonville, April 1868, he was arrested by a lieutenant in the federal 
army, and taken to jail for refusing, at the command of this petty officer, to 
place negroes on the juries.  He w3as released within a few days, but, being in 
feeble health, this violence haqste3ned his end, and he died in Gadsden, May 8, 
1868.  Judge Pope was above medium size, with reserved manners.  He was 
remarkably firm in his convictions of right and duty, and combined within his 
character the virtues, piety, sobriety, charity, and benevolence, in a very 
liberal degree.  He married a daughter of Mr. Joseph Lester of Wetumka.

Additional Comments:
From the book
Alabama:  Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540-1872, 
originally published in Montgomery County, AL, 1872.

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