Jack Pope (Texas jurist)
Andrew Jackson Jack Pope, Jr. is a retired Texas judge, attorney, author, legal scholar, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, and centenarian.
Pope was born in Abilene, Texas to Dr. Andrew Jackson Pope, Sr., a physician, and Ruth Adelia Taylor, a native of Nebraska. He is a descendant of Andrew Jackson Berry, who fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in the Texas Revolution. After completing high school in Abilene in 1930, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Abilene Christian College in 1934, where he had served as Students Association President. Pope then served as a student editor of the Texas Law Review at the University of Texas School of Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree and in 1937 was licensed by the bar. In 1938, he married Allene Nichols, an elementary school teacher and graduate of the University of Texas whom he met while attending law school the couple had two sons.
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