Sep 29  A Controversial Political Career
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-09-29

Kearby Swafford presents today's Natchez History Minute about controversial Mississippi politician George Poindexter who served in the U. S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, and was Governor of Mississippi.  Poindexter killed Abijah Hunt in a duel, was implicated in an assassination attempt on President Andrew Jackson, and made such explicit threats against Martin Van Buren that the Vice-President carried pistols when presiding over the senate.