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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. They never had children of their own, though they did foster relatives.
James Knox Polk (/ p oʊ k /; [1] November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849.A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of Jacksonian democracy and extending the territory of the United States.
Sarah Polk went to inspect the construction and repairs of the home in early 1848 for their return. [4] [5] Upon returning to Tennessee in 1849, James and Sarah Polk went to his mother's home in Columbia before returning to Nashville two weeks later, when Polk Place was finished. It was the President's final residence, where he died of cholera ...
On acquisition of the home in 1929 The James K. Polk Memorial Association founded the James K. Polk Home, the presidential museum of James K. Polk. [27] The contents of Polk Place that Sallie inherited and later left to her daughter Saidee would be brought to the museum. Later the fountain, the garden urns, and a gate from the exterior of Polk ...
POLK. 44A: President during the Mexican-American War (Sunday, April 21) James K. Polk, the 11th U.S. president, was born in Mecklenburg County and graduated from the University of North Carolina. ELLA
Elias Polk (c. 1806 – December 30, 1886) was an African American enslaved by President James K. Polk and his family from birth until his emancipation in 1865.. Following the American Civil War, he became a conservative Democratic political activist at a time when most freedmen joined the Republican Party.
Samuel Polk was born in 1772 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. [5] He was the son of Ezekiel Polk and Mary Jane Winslow Wilson. Polk married Jane Gracey Knox (1776-1852) on Christmas Day 1794 in Hopewell Church in Mecklenburg County. Jane was the daughter of Captain James Knox and Lydia (Gillespie) Knox. [6]
The ancestry of Ezekiel Polk is largely unknown. It is claimed that his father William Polk is descended from Robert Bruce Polk (1625-1703), a member of Clan Pollock migrated to Maryland; and his mother is a daughter of James Taylor, grandfather of Richard Taylor and great-grandfather of presidents Zachary Taylor and James Madison. Both ...