Biography of john pope
Biography of john pope jr!
Early Life
Born on March 16, 1822, in Louisville, Kentucky, John Pope was raised in Kaskaskia, Illinois.
Biography of john pope
His father, Nathaniel Pope, served as a prominent federal judge and was friends with Abraham Lincoln. John Pope graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1842, seventeenth in a class of fifty-six, a ranking high enough to earn him assignment to the Army Corps of Engineers.
His classmates included the future Confederate general James Longstreet and the Virginia-born, future Union general John Newton.
Pope saw action in the Mexican War as a lieutenant of engineers at the Battle of Monterrey on September 21–24, 1846, and on the staff of U.S.
general Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista on February 22–23, 1847. On September 15, 1859, he married Clara P. Horton, daughter of Ohio congressman Valentine B. Horton. Pope accompanied President-elect Lincoln on the inaugural train ride from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., in February 1861.