POPE, NATHANIEL, a Delegate from Illinois Territory; born in Louisville, Ky., January 5, 1784; attended
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar; settled in Ste.
Genevieve, Mo., in 1804, where he commenced the practice of his profession; moved to Springfield,
Ill.; appointed secretary of Illinois Territory by President Madison in 1809; reappointed in 1813 and
served from March 7, 1809, until his resignation in 1816 to become Delegate; elected on September
5, 1816, a Delegate to Congress for a term of two years (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses);
appointed register of the land office at Edwardsville, Ill., on November 30, 1818, and served until
March 3, 1819; appointed United States judge for the district of Illinois on March 3, 1819, and served
in that capacity until his death; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1824;
died in St. Louis, Mo., January 22, 1850; interment in the Colonel O'Fallon Burying Ground, on the
Bellefontaine Road.
