James P. Pope

Infobox Senator
name = James P. Pope


jr/sr =United States Senator
state = Idaho
term_start = March 4, 1933
term_end = January 3, 1939
preceded = John W. Thomas
succeeded = D. Worth Clark
office2 = Mayor of Boise, Idaho
term_start2 = April 30, 1929
term_end2 = February 13, 1933
predecessor2 = Walter F. Hansen
successor2 = Ross Cady
date of birth=birth date|1884|3|31|mf=y
Jonesboro, Louisiana
dead = dead
date of death = death date and age|1966|1|23|1884|3|31
place of death = Alexandria, Virginia
residence=Boise
spouse=
profession=Attorney
religion=Congregationalist
party=Democratic|

James Pinckney Pope (born March 31, 1884 in Jonesboro, Louisiana – died January 23 1966 in Alexandria, Virginia) was a mayor of Boise, Idaho, and a United States Senator from Idaho.

Pope graduated from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in 1906 and from the law department of the University of Chicago in 1909. He then moved to Boise, Idaho, to practice law, and served as city attorney of Boise, assistant attorney general of Idaho, and a member of the board of education of Boise.

Pope served as mayor of Boise from 1929 to 1933. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932, defeating Republican incumbent John W. Thomas. In 1938 Pope was defeated for reelection in the Democratic primary by Congressman D. Worth Clark. Before he was a member of the Nye Committee.

In 1939 Pope was appointed a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served in that capacity until 1951. He continued to practice law and serve on several boards in Tennessee after that.

Pope is buried in Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.