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Miles Poindexter

COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Register of Papers
I

Processed: MA
Date: 11/15/55

MILES POIflDEXTER
(1863 - 194-6)

The papers of Senator Miles Poindexter of Spokane, Washington,
lawyer, judge, member of Congress for one term and of the Senate for two
(1911-23) including the early years of the Federal Reserve System, were
given to the University of Virginia and are housed in the Alderman Library
thereā€¢
Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 165
Approximate number of items: 800,000
The major part of this collection (750,00C items) was photographed by automatic cameras tjome time ago at a cost of $5>0Q0 for the
University of Washington at Seattle and Washington State College at Pullman, These microfilms may be borrowed from the Washington colleges by
properly qualified scholars needing them in research.
The Alderman Library at Virginia has a key to the system by
which the papers are filed, and a typed "table of contents," The latter
can be copied if desired for this Federal Reserve project.

students.
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The Poindexter collection is open for research by qualified
The usual courtesies are expected in regard to quotation in

Miles Poindexter
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- 2 Biographical Note

1868, Apr. 22

Born, Memphis, Tennessee

1891

LL.B., Washington and Lee University

1891

Moved to Walla Walla, Washington; entered politics

1892

Elected prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla County

1892, June 16

Married Elizabeth Gale Page (dec.) (l son)

1897

Moved to Spokane

1898-1904

Assistant prosecuting attorney, Spokane County

1904-08

Judge, Superior Court

1909-11

Member, 61st Congress (Republican), 3rd Wash, district

1911-23

U.S. Senator from Washington, 2 terms

1920

Candidate for Presidential nomination at Republican
Convention

1923-28

Ambassador to Peru

1946, Sept. 21

Died

Author of:

Ayar-Incas. Peruvian Pharoahs.
Periodical articles.

See J Who Was Who in America, 1943-50, vol. II, Marquis