Editing Joseph Poindexter (section)

==Early life==
Joseph Boyd Poindexter was born in [[Canyon City, Oregon]] to Thomas W. and Margaret (Pipkin) Poindexter. He attended [[Wesleyan University]] and earned his [[LL.B.]] degree from [[Washington University in St. Louis]]. He was admitted to the Montana Bar in 1892,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=TERRITORIES: Poindexter in Paradise|magazine=Time|date=February 12, 1934}}</ref> and served as County Attorney of [[Beaverhead County, Montana]] from 1897 to 1903. He was  appointed judge of the Fifth Judicial District in Beaverhead, Madison, and Jefferson counties,  Montana in 1909. He later served as a district judge in Montana from 1909 to 1915, and he later served  as Attorney General of Montana from 1915 to 1917.<ref>{{cite web|title=Political Graveyard|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poindexter.html|publisher=Lawrence Kestenbaum|accessdate=December 6, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Men of Hawaii">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/menofhawaiibiogr00sidd|last=Siddal|first=John William|title=Men of Hawaii: Being a Biographical Reference Library, Complete and Authentic, of the Men of Note and Substantial Achievement in the Hawaiian Islands, Volume 2|year=1921|publisher=Honolulu Star-bulletin|via=www.archive.org|ol =25119222M|isbn=978-1-147-38215-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/menofhawaiibiogr00sidd/page/214 214]}}</ref>