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 orchards, orchardist in Cedar County, Missouri.'Anson W. Pope-Death Notice,' Sparta Herald (Wisconsin), October 31, 1871 His daughter Ada was married at one time to the conman James Addison Reavis, 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