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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 (157)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6td9wfd (person)

Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts. Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. att...

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Pringle, Joel Roberts Poinsett, 1873-1932 (4)

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Pringle, Joel Roberts Poinsett, b. ca. 1845. (1)

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