Poindexter, George
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born in 1779 in Louisa county, Va. He was made attorney-general of Mississippi; was a delegate to congress from the territory from 1807 to 1813, when he was appointed federal judge of the territory. He was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1819; was the second governor of Mississippi under the state constitution from 1819 to 1821; and was a United States senator from Mississippi from 1830 to 1835. He died Sept. 5, 1853, in Jackson, Miss.