Joseph Warder

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name = Joseph Warder

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office = Jeffersonville Clerk Treasurer
term_start = 1904
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office2 = Mayor of Jeffersonville
term_start2 = 1922
term_end2 = 1925
predecessor2 = Newton Meyers
successor2 = Harry Poindexter
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birth_date = June 17, 1878
birth_place = Jeffersonville, Indiana
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death_place = Jeffersonville, Indiana
party = Democratic
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residence = Jeffersonville, Indiana
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Joseph H. Warder, Sr (born June 17, 1878) was a lawyer and politician of Jeffersonville, Indiana. He was also the son of former mayor Luther Warder.

Biography

Joseph graduated from Jeffersonville High School in 1897 and went on to a law school in Louisville, Kentucky. By 1902 he had began practice and two years later became elected to the City Clerk position. [Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley: Personal and Genealogical By Federal publishing Company (1905 Federal Pub. Co) pg.218] He would later serve had the mayor of Jeffersonville from 1922 to 1925. [The Encyclopedia of Louisville By John E. Kleber (University Press of Kentucky) Pg 443] His most notable court case as a lawyer came after the high point of his political career as he participated in Louisville v. Babb. The Clark County Clerk Treasurer filed suit against the City of Louisville and Louisville Bridge Commission about the collection of tolls at the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. [7 F.Supp. 658 CITY OF LOUISVILLE, KY v. BABB, County Treasurer. No. 95. District Court, S. D. Indiana, New Albany Division. June 7 1934]

ee also

*List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana

References