Nathaniel Pope: Difference between revisions

Admitted to the bar, Nathaniel Pope entered private practice in [[Ste. Genevieve, Missouri|Ste. Genevieve]], [[Louisiana Territory]] (now [[Missouri]]) and across the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Kaskaskia, Illinois|Kaskaskia]], [[Indiana Territory]] (which became [[Illinois Territory]] on March 1, 1809) from 1804 to 1809.<ref name="auto"/> When the Illinois Territory was created, President [[James Madison]] appointed Kentucky politician [[John Boyle (congressman)|John Boyle]] as the Territorial Governor and Pope as the Territorial Secretary. Although Boyle resigned after three weeks (in order to become Kentucky's Chief Justice) and was succeeded by [[Ninian Edwards]] (a lawyer and Maryland politician who was related to Pope's mother and had moved to Kentucky and now the Illinois Territory), Nathaniel Pope served from 1809 to 1816.<ref name="auto"/> He was acting Governor of the Illinois Territory in 1809.<ref name="auto"/> He was an Illinois Territorial Militia officer in 1812.<ref name="auto"/> Pope was a [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Lusk |first=David W. |date=1887 |title=Politics and Politicians of Illinois |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0Y_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA377 |location=Springfield, IL |publisher=H. W. Rokker |page=377}}</ref>