1. George Poindexter was an American politician, lawyer, and judge from Mississippi.
35 Facts About George Poindexter
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George Poindexter served as United States Representative from the newly admitted state, was elected as Governor, and served as a United States senator.
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George Poindexter was the son of Thomas Poindexter and Lucy Poindexter; the Poindexters were a large Virginia family of French Huguenot and English ancestry.
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George Poindexter was orphaned after his father died when Poindexter was 17; Poindexter inherited two enslaved people and a share of his father's land, residing with an older brother until he came of age.
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George Poindexter was admitted to the bar in 1800 and began to practice in Milton, an Albemarle County town along the Rivanna River which no longer exists.
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When tensions rose over Mississippi's expansion, and the Spanish threatened an attack, residents of Adams County formed a militia; George Poindexter was one of the main organizers of a company in Natchez, the Mississippi Blues; he was elected commander with the rank of captain.
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When Burr was arrested, George Poindexter conducted the prosecution until Burr escaped from custody.
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George Poindexter was elected as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Mississippi Territory; he served in the 10th, 11th and 12th Congresses.
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George Poindexter worked to resolve and standardize land titles in Mississippi, where residents possessed deeds and grants from Spain, France, England, and the United States, due to the number of times the area had changed hands.
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George Poindexter opposed those who claimed the Yazoo lands, but in 1810 the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Fletcher v Peck, resolved the claims in their favor.
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George Poindexter was in Richmond in October 1807 to testify at Burr's treason trial; his testimony suggested that Burr's arrest had been based on flimsy evidence, which probably played a part in Burr's acquittal.
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George Poindexter killed Hunt, but afterward, George Poindexter's political opponents alleged that he had broken the code duello by firing at Hunt prematurely.
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George Poindexter did not run for reelection in 1812; after his final term in Congress ended, he was appointed federal Judge for the Mississippi Territory and served from 1813 to 1817.
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George Poindexter served as a volunteer aide to William Carroll as Carroll commanded a division of Tennessee militia at the War of 1812's decisive 1814 Battle of New Orleans.
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Political opponents and the editor of the Mississippi Republican challenged George Poindexter's account based on George Poindexter's supposed dereliction of duty on the day of the battle.
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In March 1815, George Poindexter confronted the editor and was arrested for assault.
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George Poindexter was chair of the committee appointed to draft a constitution for the new state of Mississippi.
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George Poindexter served in the 15th Congress from 1817 to 1819, when he chaired the Committee on Public Lands.
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George Poindexter introduced a bill to grant Randolph 50,000 acres in Virginia, with the idea she could sell the land to raise money to live on.
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George Poindexter served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims in the 22nd Congress from 1831 to 1833, of the Committee on Public Lands in the 23rd Congress from 1833 to 1835 and was President pro tempore of the Senate from June to November 1834.
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George Poindexter had espoused some views that could be regarded as socialist regarding government repossession of land.
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George Poindexter was thought to have made these claims to support President Andrew Jackson's fight with the Second Bank of the United States.
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George Poindexter was a supporter of President Jackson and had defended him against calls for censure stemming from Jackson's 1818 invasion of Florida, but had slowly become less happy with the President's policies.
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In 1834 George Poindexter had his home in Washington, DC painted by Richard Lawrence.
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Jackson accused various political enemies of being behind Lawrence's actions, including George Poindexter, who denied any connection.
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George Poindexter took issue with Vice President Martin Van Buren's support of Jackson during the debate over the Bank and made explicit threats that caused Van Buren to carry pistols for self-defense when presiding over the Senate.
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In 1835, George Poindexter moved to Kentucky, where he continued practicing law in Lexington.
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George Poindexter later moved back to Jackson, Mississippi and resumed his law practice until his death there on September 5,1853.
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George Poindexter was a gambler and an alcoholic, with alcohol dependence being a significant contributing factor to his death.
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In 1804 George Poindexter married Lydia Carter, the daughter of a prominent Natchez businessman and plantation owner.
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In 1820 Lydia Carter George Poindexter married Reverend Lewis Williams and moved to Brimfield, Massachusetts.
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George Poindexter's sons remained with her; Poindexter provided for the support of George, but disavowed Albert and refused to provide for him.
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George Poindexter was said to have a serious, potentially non-consensual liaison with an enslaved woman.
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George Poindexter reportedly had a strong physical resemblance to Henry Clay.
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George Poindexter married his third wife, Ann Hewes of Boston, in 1832.