Harry Poindexter

Harry Clay Poindexter[2] (1857–1937) was mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, and son of former Jeffersonville mayor Gabriel Poindexter.[3]

Harry Clay Poindexter
Mayor of Jeffersonville
In office
January 1, 1926 – December 31, 1929
Preceded byJoseph Warder
Succeeded byAllen Jacobs
Personal details
BornMay 10, 1857
Battle, Indiana
Died1937 [1]
Resting placeJeffersonville, Indiana
Political partyRepublican

Biography

Harry was born in Battle, Indiana;[2] one of nine children of Gabriel and Mary Poindexter.[4] 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.[4] 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.[4] 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.[5] The years following the election he would become the superintendent for Jeffersonville's Government Depot now better known as the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot.[6] In 1926 he became mayor of Jeffersonville and serve until 1929.[7] Harry Poindexter was also a local preacher at the Wall Street Church.

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See also

References
  1. Harry Poindexter at Find a Grave
  2. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/merrimack/history/families/willey/willey1.txt
  3. Eleventh Generation
  4. Indiana Biography Ref. Page
  5. The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Poindexter
  6. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood by Jacob Piatt Dunn, published 1919, page 2153
  7. Kleber, John E. Encyclopedia of Louisville. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.443.


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