Harry Poindexter

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.

• List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana