C. Pope Caldwell
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Charles Pope Caldwell (June 18, 1875 - July 31, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born near Bastrop, Texas, Caldwell attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1898 and the law department of Yale University in 1899. He was admitted to the bar in Austin, Texas, in 1898, and later in New York City, where he commenced practice in 1900. He was appointed by Governor Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways Convention in 1910. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912.
Caldwell was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921): declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1920. He resumed the practice of law in New York City. He was appointed associate justice of the court of special sessions of New York City January 1, 1926, and served until December 1935. He resumed the practice of law in Long Island, New York. He died in Sunnyside, New York, July 31, 1940. He remains were cremated and the ashes scattered over his ancestral estate in Bastrop County, Texas.
