lieutenant death_date children birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place order term_start spouse image name predecessor birth_place party office successor article_title birth_name
edward a. gilbert april 5 , 1909 -lrb- age 60 -rrb- josephine and charles may 29 , 1848 january 3 , 1901 eureka college wyuka cemetery , lincoln , lancaster county , nebraska 10th january 5 , 1899 maria josephine mccorkle william a. poynter william a. poynter silas a. holcomb eureka , illinois democratic -lrb- united states -rrb- party -lrb- united states -rrb- people 's party governor of nebraska charles henry dietrich william a. poynter
 william amos poynter
william a. poynter

william amos poynter -lrb- may 29 , 1848 -- april 5 , 1909 -rrb- was a nebraska politician and the tenth governor of nebraska from 1899 to 1901 , running under a fusion ticket between the populist and the democratic party .
he had previously also been elected to the former nebraska state house of representatives in 1885 and the state senate in 1891 .
