Background
POPE, Joseph Daniel was born on March 6, 1820 in Beaufort District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of Joseph James and Sarah (Jenkins) Pope.
POPE, Joseph Daniel was born on March 6, 1820 in Beaufort District, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of Joseph James and Sarah (Jenkins) Pope.
Private school, southern university.
He attended Waterloo Academy, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841, studied law under James L. Pettigru, and was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1845. He was an Episcopalian. Pope married Catherine A. Scott on December 11, 1845.
Besides practicing law at Beaufort, he served in the lower house of the South Carolina legislature from 1854 to 1860 and in the upper house from 1863 to 1865. He was also a delegate to the state secession convention. When the Civil War began, he was made head of the Confederate Revenue Department.
Secretary of the Treasury Memminger placed him in charge of printing and issuing Confederate money and of printing all Confederate Treasury notes. During his tenure, he recommended the creation of a centralized government printing agency in Columbia, South Carolina. He retained this position throughout the war.
Pope lost his property during the war and practiced law in Columbia, South Carolina, after 1865. In 1884, he was named professor of law at the University of South Carolina, and in 1906, he became the first dean of the law school there.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.