Pope Barrow Billups (October 11, 1889 – December 6, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented the 21st district in the New York State Assembly.[1][2]

Pope Billups was born in Athens, Georgia,[3] and graduated from the Florida Baptist Academy in 1910, and then attended Florida A&M University. He earned a Bachelor of Laws from New York University in 1916, and was admitted to the New York State Bar Association the year after.[4] He was elected in 1925.[5]

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  1. ↑ "The New York Red Book". Williams Press. February 5, 1925 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Osterdahl, Andy (February 10, 2020). "The Strangest Names In American Political History: Pope Barrow Billups (1889-1955)".
  3. ↑ Yanser, Thomas, ed. (1942). Who's Who in Colored America (6th ed.). Brooklyn. p. 54. OCLC 1644797.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ "Atty. Pope B. Billups Named For Assemblyman". The New York Age. August 2, 1924. p. 1.
  5. ↑ Walton, Hanes; Puckett, Sherman C.; Deskins, Donald R. (May 1, 2012). The African American Electorate: A Statistical History. CQ Press. ISBN 9781452234380 – via Google Books.


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