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Sarah Childress Polk (September 4, 1803 – August 14, 1891) was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849. She was the wife of the 11th president of the United States , James K. Polk . Well educated in a successful family, Sarah met her future husband at a young age.
Polk Place was the home of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk, originally on Vine Street in Nashville, Tennessee, before it was demolished in 1901.
Beginning in early 1822, Polk courted Sarah Childress—they were engaged the following year [22] and married on January 1, 1824, in Murfreesboro. [18] Educated far better than most women of her time, especially in frontier Tennessee, Sarah Polk was from one of the state's most prominent families. [ 18 ]
On March 27, 2017, the Tennessee Senate voted 20–6 to relocate the remains of President Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk from the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to the Polk home. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On March 3, 2018, the bill passed the State Government Committee and went before the floor of the state legislature, when the State Senate ...
As an enslaved person, Polk lived and worked at the Polk farm in Maury County, Tennessee, in the Columbia home of James and Sarah Polk, in the White House, and at the Polks' Nashville residence, Polk Place. After the president's death, Elias Polk continued to live at Polk Place and serve the widowed First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. Once Elias ...
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Sarah Polk Jetton Fall [b] (April 1, 1847 – July 22, 1924) was a wealthy Nashville socialite and philanthropist. She was the great-niece and unofficially adopted daughter of former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. Sallie's mother died when she was only a few months old.
Sarah Childress Polk, attended Salem Female Academy in 1817 (later became Salem College); wife of US President James K. Polk; Emily J. Reynolds, 1978 graduate of Stephens College; Secretary of the United States Senate, 2003–2007; Senior Vice President for Government Relations with the Tennessee Valley Authority