He attended Marshall University before enrolling in the Confederate Army in the winter of 1863.

He served as a scout for in Terry's Texas Rangers until the end of the American Civil War.

Pope died on his 66th birthday on February 15, 1913, in a Waco hospital of uremic poisoning, his resting place is in Marshall, Texas.

[1] Pope was first elected as Harris county attorney in 1869, he failed to be reelected in 1870.

He also appointed by Governor Lawrence Ross to serve as a special agent to the United States Congress to push agendas, he was in Washington, D.C., for 4 years.