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POPE, John Henry, Canadian statesman, born in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, in 1824. He was educated at the high-school in Compton, and early in life engaged in farming. He represented Compton in the Canada assembly from 1857 till the union, and was elected in 1867, 1872, 1874, and 1878 for that constituency, by acclamation, to the Dominion parliament. He was re-elected in 1882 and in February, 1887. Mr. Pope became a member of the privy council of Canada, and was minister of agriculture from October, 1871, till November, 1873, when he retired with the government on the Pacific railway question. He was reappointed minister of agriculture in 1878, and minister of railways and canals in September, 1885. During the summer of 1880 he visited England in company with Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Charles Tupper, and took an active part in the negotiations that resulted in the Pacific railway contract, which was afterward ratified by the Canadian parliament. Mr. Pope is president of the International railway of Maine and of the Compton colonization society.
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