Trusten Polk

Infobox Senator
name=Trusten Polk


width=200px
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Missouri
party=Democrat
term=March 4, 1857ndash January 10, 1862
preceded=Henry S. Geyer
succeeded=John B. Henderson
date of birth=May 29, 1811
place of birth=Bridgeville, Delaware, USA
date of death=April 16, 1876
place of death=St. Louis, Missouri, USA
spouse=Elizabeth Skinner Polk
profession=Politician, Lawyer, Judge
religion=Episcopalian
footnotes=

Trusten Polk (May 29, 1811ndash April 16, 1876) was elected both Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator in 1856.

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.

External links

*CongBio|P000411 Retrieved on 2008-02-14
*findagrave|18506 Retrieved on 2008-02-14
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=dcce959176c95010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD Trusten Polk] at the National Governors Association