Barton C. Pope

Barton C. Pope (1813[1] – after April 5, 1862) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Florida.

In 1849, he was nominated by state senator William P. Moseley of Madison County to be the solicitor for Florida's Middle Judicial Circuit Court; however, Pope lost the nomination vote to former state representative Samuel B. Stephens of Gadsden County.

Though he was the early frontrunner for the nomination, he was defeated on the 12th ballot at the party convention by Robert Benjamin Hilton, the clerk of the Florida House of Representatives.

[8] At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Pope enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a private, joining Company F of the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment on April 4, 1861 for a 12-month service.

Frank later became a Florida state senator while Hunter was murdered by a family friend, John Cason, following a dispute regarding a billiards game.