Harry Poindexter

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.

See also

• List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana

References