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Bowen Pope Full Name: Bowen Pope Date of birth: September 5, 1878 Date of death: September 13, 1962 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Legislation Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 115 Jan 8, 1929 - Jan 13, 1931 41st   Democrat Hamlin / Jones   Jones, Shackelford H 115 Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 8, 1929 40th   Democrat Hamlin / Jones   Jones, Shackelford H 115 Jan 13, 1925 - Jan 11, 1927 39th   Democrat Hamlin / Jones   Jones, Shackelford   Biographical Notes and Resources top Military Service Notes Bowen Pope, Hamlin, Texas, birth date 9/5/1878. FamilySearch United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, 1985. Private, Company K, 4th Regiment, Texas Infantry, Spanish-American War. Military grave marker, Bowen Pope, birth date 9/5/1878, death date 9/13/1962, burial in Hamlin Memorial Cemetery, Hamlin, Jones County. Includes obituary reprint noting service in the Legislature. Find a Grave. Pope, Bowen, Texas Volunteer Guard, Call Number: 401-208. Born in Smith County, Tennessee. Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935. Other Resources Bowen Pope, birth date 9/5/1878 in Tennessee, death date 9/13/1962 in Hamlin, Jones County, newspaper owner/newspaper man. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. Obituary and photo, "Services Held Saturday for Former Newspaper Publisher," 9/20/1962, p. 1. Bowen Pope, "former publisher of the Hamlin Herald, a state legislator in the 1920's," birth date 9/5/1878, Spanish-American War veteran. Hamlin Herald (Hamlin, Texas). 41st Legislature (1929) - Bowen Pope, postoffice Hamlin, nativity Tennessee, age 50, publisher, member of former legislatures: 39th-40th. Texas Legislative Manual. Photographs Photograph. Bowen Pope, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Bowen Pope, 40th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Bowen Pope, 39th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 39th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board. 40th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board. 41st session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 41st R.S. - 1929 Education   Highways and Motor Traffic   Judicial Districts (Chair)  Privileges, Suffrage and Elections   Revenue and Taxation   40th R.S. - 1927 Federal Relations   Highways and Motor Traffic   Insurance   Liquor Traffic   39th R.S. - 1925 Blanket Tax at Tarleton College, Investigate   Blanket Tax for UT Students, Investigate   Contingent Expense   Education   Game and Fisheries   Liquor Traffic   Public Printing (Chair)

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