| 词条 | Miles Poindexter |
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|name = Miles Poindexter |image = MilesPoindexter.jpg |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = Washington |term_start = March 4, 1911 |term_end = March 3, 1923 |predecessor = Samuel H. Piles |successor = Clarence Dill |state2 = Washington |district2 = 3rd |predecessor2 = District created |successor2 = William Leroy La Follette |term_start2 = March 4, 1909 |term_end2 = March 3, 1911 |ambassador_from3 = United States |country3 = Peru |term_start3 = April 20, 1923 |term_end3 = March 21, 1928 |predecessor3 = William E. Gonzales |successor3 = Alexander P. Moore |president3 = Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge |birth_date = {{birth date|1868|4|22}} |birth_place = Memphis, Tennessee |death_date = {{death date and age|1946|9|21|1868|4|22}} |death_place = Rockbridge County, Virginia |restingplace = Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Washington |party = Republican Progressive |education = Washington and Lee University |profession = Attorney |spouse = Elizabeth Gale Page (1866-1929) (m. 1892) Elinor Jackson Junkin Latane (m. 1936) |children = 1 }} Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868{{spaced ndash}}September 21, 1946) was an American politician and author. As a Republican and later a Progressive, he served as a United States Representative and United States Senator from the state of Washington. Poindexter also served as United States Ambassador to Peru during the presidential administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Poindexter was raised in Virginia, received a law degree from Washington and Lee University in 1891 and moved to Walla Walla, Washington, where he practiced law and entered politics as a Republican. He served as prosecuting attorney in Walla Walla, and then moved to Spokane, where he was assistant prosecuting attorney and a superior court judge. In 1908, Poindexter was elected to the U.S. House. He served one term (1909-1911), and was reelected in 1910. He resigned before his new term began in March 1911 because the state legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate. He was reelected in 1916, and served from 1911 to 1923. Poindexter became a Progressive Party member in 1913, but returned to the Republicans in 1915. Poindexter was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, and for reelection to the Senate in 1922. In 1923, Poindexter was appointed Ambassador to Peru. He served until 1928, when he returned to Washington and waged an unsuccessful campaign for the Senate. After losing the 1928 election, Poindexter moved to Natural Bridge Station, Virginia. He died there in 1946, and was buried at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane. Early lifePoindexter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Josephine (Anderson) Poindexter and William B. Poindexter.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} His parents were residents of Malvern Hill in Henrico County, Virginia, and his father was an American Civil War veteran of the Confederate States Army.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} Poindexter was raised in Virginia, and attended the Fancy Hill Academy in Rockbridge County, Virginia.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} He then attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, from which he graduated with an LL.B. degree in 1891.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} Legal careerAfter he graduated, he settled in Walla Walla, Washington, where he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} In 1892 he became the prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla County.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} He moved to Spokane, Washington in 1897 where he continued the practice of law.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=706}} He 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.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|pages=706-707}} Political lifeHe 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.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=707}} He was reelected in 1910, but resigned in 1911 because the Washington State Legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=707}} He was reelected in 1916, and served from March 4, 1911 to March 3, 1923.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} Poindexter left the Republican Party in 1913 to join the Progressive Party, rejoining the Republicans in 1915.{{sfn|"Biographical Note, Miles Poindexter"|page=1}} He was unsuccessful in his candidacy for reelection in 1922.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} Committee chairmanshipsDuring his Senate tenure, Poindexter served as chairman of the following committees:{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}}
Later lifePoindexter ran in the 1920 Republican Party presidential primaries, but was not a serious contender for the party's nomination. {{sfn|The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1921|page=218-223}} He 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. {{sfn|The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1921|page=218-223}} After losing his 1922 campaign for reelection to the Senate, in 1923 Harding appointed Poindexter as United States Ambassador to Peru.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} He served until 1928, when he resigned and returned to Washington.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} He was an unsuccessful candidate that year for the United States Senate.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} Retirement and deathAfter the death of his wife, Poindexter returned to his home, "Elk Cliff" in Greenlee, near Natural Bridge Station, Virginia.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1747}} He died there on September 21, 1946, and was buried at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane.{{sfn|"Burial Record, Miles Poindexter"}} FamilyIn 1892, Poindexter married Elizabeth Gale Page (1866-1929) of Walla Walla.{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=707}} They were the parents of a son, Gale Aylett Poindexter (1893-1976).{{sfn|History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington|page=707}} Poindexter remarried in 1936, becoming the husband of Elinor Jackson Junkin Latane, the widow of John Holladay Latane, a professor at Johns Hopkins University.{{sfn|"Miles Poindexter, Ex-Senator, Weds"|page=1}} Elizabeth Gale Page was the granddaughter of Joseph Gale, the first governor of Oregon.{{sfn|"Singer Without a Song"|page=3D}} She and Miles Poindexter were the aunt and uncle of actress Gale Page.{{sfn|"Singer Without a Song"|page=3D}} ReferencesSourcesBooks
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