Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Bowen Pope

Full Name: Bowen Pope
Birth date: September 5, 1878
Death date: September 13, 1962

Bowen Pope, birth date 9/5/1878 in Tennessee; death date 9/13/1962 in Hamlin, Jones County, Texas; newspaper owner/newspaper man. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
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 from Kinney Funeral Home Book 1962-1964, p. 59. Find a Grave .
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) .
Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/24/1929, p. 5. Houston Post-Dispatch .
Pope, Bowen, Texas Volunteer Guard, Call Number: 401-208. Born in Smith County, Tennessee. Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935 .
41st Legislature (1929) - Bowen Pope, postoffice Hamlin, nativity Tennessee, age 50, publisher, member of former legislatures: 39th-40th. Texas Legislative Manual .