Education
Born in Jackson, the seat of Madison County in western Tennessee, he graduated in 1958 from Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee.
Born in Jackson, the seat of Madison County in western Tennessee, he graduated in 1958 from Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee.
He relocated to Florida in 1963. From 1953 to 1961, Poole served in the United States Army Reserve. He was elected to the state House in the same election in which his fellow Republicans, Governor Claude R. Kirk, Junior., and United States. Representative William C. Cramer of Saint St. Petersburg, went down to defeat.
Foreign two years, he was the House Minority Whip.
Chiles was first elected in 1970, when he defeated Cramer. Under the Republican Governor Bob Martinez, Poole was the director of the Florida Department of Business Regulation.
From 1989 to 1993, he chaired the Florida Republican Party. In 2001, then Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to the Federal Judicial Nomination Commission, headed by former Governor Martinez.
Poole spent twenty years as an insurance executive with Krieg Kostas & Poole and is currently a lobbyist with Dutko Poole McKinley.
He resides in Fort Lauderdale in Broward County.
From 1971 to 1979, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from Broward County in south Florida. From 1979 to 1983, he was a member of the Florida Senate.