19 Facts About Miles Poindexter

Miles Poindexter was an American lawyer and politician.

Miles Poindexter's parents were residents of Malvern Hill in Henrico County, Virginia, and his father was an American Civil War veteran of the Confederate States Army.

Miles Poindexter was raised in Virginia, and attended the Fancy Hill Academy in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Miles Poindexter then attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, from which he graduated with an LL.

Miles Poindexter moved to Spokane, Washington in 1897 where he continued the practice of law.

Miles Poindexter served as the assistant prosecuting attorney for Spokane County from 1898 to 1904, and as a judge of the superior court from 1904 to 1908.

Miles Poindexter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress, and served from March 4,1909, to March 3,1911, representing Washington's newly created 3rd congressional district.

Miles Poindexter was reelected in 1910, but resigned in 1911 because the Washington State Legislature elected him to the US Senate.

Miles Poindexter was reelected in 1916, and served from March 4,1911, to March 3,1923.

Miles Poindexter left the Republican Party in 1913 to join the Progressive Party, rejoining the Republicans in 1915.

Miles Poindexter played a role in instigating the First Red Scare by accusing the Wilson administration of being infested with Bolshevism and accusing United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis Brandeis of being a communist.

Miles Poindexter was a target of reformers and progressives in 1922, and lost his bid for reelection to the Democratic nominee, Representative Clarence Dill.

Miles Poindexter ran in the 1920 Republican Party presidential primaries, but was not a serious contender for the party's nomination.

Miles Poindexter received the votes of 20 delegates on the first ballot at the 1920 Republican National Convention, and the nomination went to Warren G Harding on the 10th ballot.

Miles Poindexter served until 1928, when he resigned and returned to Washington.

Miles Poindexter was an unsuccessful candidate that year for the United States Senate.

Miles Poindexter died there on September 21,1946, and was buried at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane.

In 1892, Miles Poindexter married Elizabeth Gale Page of Walla Walla.

Miles Poindexter remarried in 1936, becoming the husband of Elinor Jackson Junkin Latane, the widow of John Holladay Latane, a professor at Johns Hopkins University.