Trusten Polk
{{short description|American politician}}
{{redirect|Senator Polk}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Trusten Polk
|image = Hon. Trusten Polk, Mo - NARA - 528704.jpg
|jr/sr = United States Senator
|state = Missouri
|term_start = March 4, 1857
|term_end = January 10, 1862
|predecessor = Henry S. Geyer
|successor = John B. Henderson
|order1 = 12th Governor of Missouri
|lieutenant1 = Hancock Lee Jackson
|term_start1 = January 5, 1857
|term_end1 = February 27, 1857
|predecessor1 = Sterling Price
|successor1 = Hancock Lee Jackson
|birth_date = {{birth date|1811|5|29}}
|birth_place = Bridgeville, Delaware, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1876|4|16|1811|5|29}}
|death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
|party = Democratic
|spouse = Elizabeth Skinner
|education = Yale University (BA)
|allegiance = Confederate States
|branch = Confederate States Army
|rank = Colonel
|unit = Missouri State Guard
|battles = American Civil War
}}
Trusten W. Polk (May 29, 1811{{spaced ndash}}April 16, 1876) served as 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 was elected Governor of Missouri in 1856 and served 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 on January 10, 1862, for his support of the South in the American Civil War. He was appointed as a colonel in the Missouri State Guard under the command of Confederate General Sterling Price, 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 following his death on April 16, 1876, aged 64.
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External links
{{CongBio|P000411}} Retrieved on 2008-02-14
- {{Find a Grave|18506|accessdate=2008-02-14}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930030330/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=dcce959176c95010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD Trusten Polk] at the National Governors Association
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