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Joel Roberts Poinsett
Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) 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 (the United States did not appoint ambassadors until 1896), a U.S. 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), as well as the eponym of Poinsett County, Arkansas; Poinsett Highway, Poinsett Bridge, and Poinsett State Park in South Carolina; Lake Poinsett in South Dakota; and the poinsettia, a popular Christmas plant.〔Edward A. Riedinger, "Joel Roberts Poinsett," in ''Encyclopedia of Mexico'', vol. 2, p. 1095. Chicago: Fitzroy and Dearborn 1997.〕
==Early travels==
Born in 1779 in Charleston, South Carolina, to a wealthy physician, Dr. Elisha Poinsett, and his wife Katherine Ann Roberts, he was educated in Connecticut and Europe, gaining expertise in languages, the law, and military affairs.〔The standard biography is J. Fred Rippy, ''Joel R. Poinsett: Versatile American'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 1935).〕
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