Historical records matching Trusten W Polk, U.S. Senator & Missouri Governor
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About Trusten W Polk, U.S. Senator & Missouri Governor
U.S. Senator & Governor Trusten W Polk (CSA)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusten_Polk
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18506/trusten_w_polk
- https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000411
- https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/mdh_splash/default.asp?coll=trustpolk
Civil War Confederate Army Officer, Missouri Governor, U.S. Senator. He was a relative of U.s. President James K. Polk and was also active in politics, serving as city counselor, delegate to the state Constitutional Convention and presidential elector. He was inaugurated as Missouri's Governor on January 5, 1857, but resigned after being elected by the Missouri General Assembly as a Senator from Missouri in the United States Senate in the same year.
Joining the Confederate army, the newly elected Polk served the Confederacy as a Colonel and judge advocate general of the Department of the Trans-Mississippi. He was captured and imprisoned at Johnson's Island for several months before being exchanged. Polk followed Generals Sterling Price and Jo Shelby to Mexico after the war, but soon returned to St. Louis to continue practicing law.
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Trusten Polk (May 29, 1811 – April 16, 1876) served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.
Biography
Polk was born in Bridgeville, Delaware. A Democrat, he served as Governor of Missouri from January 5, 1857, until February 27 when he resigned to become a U.S. Senator. Hancock Lee Jackson succeeded him as governor until the election of Robert Marcellus Stewart.
Polk was expelled from the U.S. Senate January 10, 1862, for his support of the South in the American Civil War. He was appointed as a colonel in the Confederate States Army, and later served as a judge in the military courts of the Department of Mississippi in 1864 and 1865.
After the war, Polk was a lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri. He is buried there in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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Trusten W Polk, U.S. Senator & Missouri Governor's Timeline
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May 29, 1811
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Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware, United States
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April 22, 1842
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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1844
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April 16, 1876
Age 64
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Bellefontaine Cemetery, 4947 West Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, 63115, United States
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