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Massachusetts politician
Susan W. Pope
Pope in 2005.
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 13th Middlesex district
In office
1997–2006
Preceded byNancy Hasty Evans
Succeeded byTom Conroy
Personal details
BornSusan Joan Wetzel
(1942-09-10) September 10, 1942 (age 82)
Summit, New Jersey, United States
Political partyRepublican
SpouseWalter F. Pope
Children3 (Susan, Bradford, and Spencer)
Alma materCentenary College of Louisiana

Susan Joan Wetzel Pope (born September 10, 1942 in Summit) is an American politician from Wayland, Massachusetts. Pope represented the 13th Middlesex district as a Republican in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2006.

Career

Born in Summit, New Jersey, Pope graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville. She then received her Bachelor of Arts from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1963.

Pope later moved to Wayland, Massachusetts, where she was elected as a member of the Town of Wayland School Committee from 1984 to 1994, and then to the Board of Selectmen until 2003.

In 1996, Pope first ran for office in the Republican primary election for the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Middlesex district against Maryann K. Clark. Pope won and was also victorious in the general election against Russell A. Ashton of the Democratic Party, succeeding Nancy Hasty Evans, another female Republican from Wayland. She continued to hold the post until defeat by Tom Conroy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives election in 2006. Pope retried in the following election in 2008, and lost again to Conroy.

Pope was a member of the The Wish List, a political action committee dedicated to electing pro-abortion rights Republican women into office.

See also

References

  1. "History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature, 1923–2015" (PDF). Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  2. https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/13537/susan-pope

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