Harry Poindexter
| Harry Clay Poindexter | |
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| Mayor of Jeffersonville | |
| In office January 1, 1926 – December 31, 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Warder |
| Succeeded by | Allen Jacobs |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 10, 1857 Battle, Indiana |
| Political party | Republican |
| Religion | Christian |
Harry Clay Poindexter[1] (born May 10, 1857) was mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, and son of former Jeffersonville mayor Gabriel Poindexter.[2]
Biography
Harry was born in Battle, Indiana;[1] one of nine children of Gabriel and Mary Poindexter.[3] 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.[3] 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.[3] 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.[4] The years following the election he would become the superintendent for Jeffersonville's Government Depot now better known as the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot.[5] In 1926 he became mayor of Jeffersonville and serve until 1929.[6] Harry Poindexter was also a local preacher at the Wall Street Church.
References
- ^ a b http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/merrimack/history/families/willey/willey1.txt
- ^ Eighth Generation
- ^ a b c Indiana Biography Ref. Page
- ^ The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Poindexter
- ^ Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood by Jacob Piatt Dunn, published 1919, page 2153
- ^ Kleber, John E. Encyclopedia of Louisville. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.443.
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