Anson Waterman Pope (June 30, 1812 – October 5, 1871) was an

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who served three discontinuous one-year terms as a member of the

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, in 1849 as a Whig, and in 1861 and 1866 as a Republican, while living in

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. He spent his last few years as an

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Cedar County, Missouri Cedar County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,188. The county seat is Stockton. The county was founded February 14, 1845, and named after Cedar Creek, a t ...

.'Anson W. Pope-Death Notice,' Sparta Herald (Wisconsin), October 31, 1871 His daughter Ada was married at one time to the

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James Addison Reavis James Addison Reavis (May 10, 1843November 27, 1914), later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster. He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also kno ...

, the self-styled "Baron of Arizona".

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1812 births 1871 deaths People from Cedar County, Missouri Politicians from Janesville, Wisconsin Wisconsin Whigs Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1810s-stub