Joel Roberts Poinsett

Joel Roberts Poinsett Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779December 12, 1851) was an American physician, diplomat and botanist. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina legislature and the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico, a Unionist leader in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis, Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a co-founder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts (a predecessor of the Smithsonian Institution). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Joel Roberts Poinsett papers 1785-1851
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    Author: Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
    Published 1841
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    Discourse, on the objects and importance of the National institution for the promotion of science, established at Washington, 1840, delivered at the first anniversary
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    Author: Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857
    Published 1832
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    Occasional reviews
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    Author: Citizen of the United States
    Published 1824
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    Notes on Mexico, made in the autumn of 1822 : accompanied by an historical sketch of the revolution, and translations of official reports on the present state of that country .
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    Author: Jantz, Harold Stein, 1907-
    Published 1952
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    Charles Searlsfield's letter to Joel R. Poinsett
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    Published 1941
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    Calendar of Joel R. Poinsett papers in the Henry D. Gilpin collection,
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    Author: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
    Published 1824
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    Discussion of the Greek question, in the House of Representatives

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