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| | Handbook of Texas Online: POPE, WILLIAM HENRY |
 | | William Henry Pope, soldier, lawyer, and public official, was born in Washington, Georgia, on February 15, 1847, the son of Alexander and Sarah (Willie) Pope. |
 | | Pope spent four years in Washington, D.C., and eventually succeeded in having the claims of about $1.5 million recognized and paid in full. |
 | | In the 1890s, while practicing law in Marshall, Pope represented a woman in a child custody trial; in an incident provoked by the case, he was shot and gravely wounded, and his brother was killed. |
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