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Poindexter was born in Houston, Texas. [1]He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors. [1] After several years' military service, he entered New York University, where an MBA in 1971 was followed by a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance in 1976.
The ranch is situated in the Chinati Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, near Shafter, Texas, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of the Mexico–United States border. [3] [4] It spans 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), and U.S. Route 67 passes through the property. [3] The Cibolo Creek Ranch Airport is located 3.5 mi (5.6 km) northeast of the hotel. [5]
The Order gained media attention in February 2016, when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died while staying at Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County in West Texas. The owner of the ranch, John B. Poindexter, as well as C. Allen Foster, a Washington attorney who travelled with Scalia to the ranch by private plane, hold leadership ...
In 1900, he purchased the 8 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, which became the nucleus of the present-day 6666 Ranch, followed by the Dixon Creek Ranch and later purchases which now all make up the ranch's ...
John Poindexter (born 1936) is a former U.S. federal government official. Other notable John Poindexters: John A. Poindexter (1825–1869), Confederate-American military officer; John B. Poindexter (born 1944), American soldier and trucking-company founder; John J. Poindexter (c. 1816–1870), American slave trader and steamboat master
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor during the Reagan administration .
West Texas Centers employs close to 300 employees who provide care for 2,200 people a month with mental health and intellectual and developmental disabilities in 23 counties in rural West Texas.
Faver built the first of his three adobe forts, El Fortín del Cíbolo, in 1857, as a defensive measure against Apaches, Comanches, and bandits of all kinds.His ranching empire boasted as many as 20,000 longhorns—some say as many as 100,000—irrigated farms, and herds of sheep and goats, making him the preeminent pioneer rancher of the Big Bend. [1]