Harry Poindexter

Harry Clay Poindexter
Mayor of Jeffersonville
In office
January 1, 1926 – December 31, 1929
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 moved to Marion County, and in 1901 became a clerk to Broad Ripple, Indiana. In 1903, he returned to Jeffersonville, where he 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

References

  1. 1 2 http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/merrimack/history/families/willey/willey1.txt
  2. ↑ Eighth Generation
  3. 1 2 3 Indiana Biography Ref. Page
  4. ↑ The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Poindexter
  5. ↑ Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood by Jacob Piatt Dunn, published 1919, page 2153
  6. ↑ Kleber, John E. Encyclopedia of Louisville. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.443.


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