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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 and are housed in the Alderman Library there•

Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 165

Approximate number of items: 800,000

The major part of this collection (750,00C items) was photo­ graphed by automatic cameras tjome time ago at a cost of $5>0Q0 for the University of Washington at Seattle and Washington State College at Pull­ man, 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.

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

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Biographical Note

1868, Apr. 22 Born, Memphis,

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

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