Harry Poindexter

Harry Poindexter

Infobox Politician
name = Harry Clay Poindexter



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office = Mayor of Jeffersonville
term_start = January 1 1926
term_end = December 31 1929
predecessor = Joseph Warder
successor = Allen Jacobs
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birth_date = May 10 1857
birth_place =Battle, Indiana
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Harry Clay Poindexterhttp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/merrimack/history/families/willey/willey1.txt] (born May 10 1857) was mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, and son of former Jeffersonville mayor Gabriel Poindexter. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~katy/poindex/b9158.html#P9158 Eighth Generation ] ]

Biography

Harry was born in Battle, Indiana; one of nine children of Gabriel and Mary Poindexter. [http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/indiana/indbioref-125.htm Indiana Biography Ref. Page ] ] He attended the schools of Jeffersonville and graduated and held an interest in politics. He married Anna King of Jackson County. By 1894 he became the only Republican elected to be a member of the Clark County legislature. However after his term ended around 1896 he would move to Marion County and in 1901 he became a clerk to Broad Ripple, Indiana until he returned to Jeffersonville in 1903 and worked in a canning shop. Three years later he would be appointed to City Court Judge by Governor Frank Hanly. He would serve that office for four years and attend law at a school in Louisville, Kentucky in which he would graduate in 1909 in which after serving as judge he would continue a general practice. In 1910 he would become a candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 3rd district, but wasn't elected losing to William E. Cox. [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poindexter.html The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Poindexter ] ] The years following the election he would become the superintendent for Jeffersonville's Government Depot now better known as the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=s8wtRblsXksC&pg=PA2153&lpg=PA2153&dq=harry+c+poindexter+jeffersonville&source=web&ots=3RkXslJ60t&sig=H3XETYe0phGU31yrinKrkgMmvzI#PPA2153,M1 Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood by Jacob Piatt Dunn, published 1919, page 2153] ] In 1926 he became mayor of Jeffersonville and serve until 1929. [Kleber, John E. "Encyclopedia of Louisville".(University Press of Kentucky). pg.443.] Harry Poindexter was also a local preacher at the Wall Street Church.

ee also

*List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana

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