List of Famous people with last name Poinsett

Joel Roberts Poinsett

First Name Joel
Last Name Poinsett
Born on March 2, 1779
Died on December 12, 1851 (aged 72)

Joel Roberts Poinsett was an American physician and diplomat. 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.

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