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Sarah Childress Polk (* 4. September 1803 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; † 14. August 1891 in Nashville) war die Ehefrau des 11. US-Präsidenten James K. Polk und die First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten vom 4. März 1845 bis zum 3.
4 de mar. de 2015 · Sarah Childress Polk was born near Nurfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, September 4, 1803, is the daughter of Joel and Elizabeth Childress. Her father, a farmer in easy circumstances, sent her to the Moravian institute at Salem, North Carolina, where she was educated. On returning home she married Mr. Polk, who was then a member of the ...
Clad always in black, Sarah Polk lived on in that home for 42 years, guarding the memory of her husband and accepting honors paid to her as honors due to him. The house became a place of pilgrimage. During the Civil War, Mrs. Polk held herself above sectional strife and received with dignity leaders of both Confederate and Union armies; all respected Polk Place as neutral ground.
Sarah Polk's life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth century, and her legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our eleventh First Lady's complex but essential part in American feminism."--Dust jacket.
Sarah Childress Polk (4 September 1803 - 14 Ogos 1891) ialah Wanita Pertama Amerika Syarikat dari tahun 1845 hingga 1849. Beliau adalah isteri Presiden Amerika Syarikat ke-11 , James K. Polk . Sarah dan James K. Polk
Sarah Childress’s dowry—when she left her family’s cotton farm near Murfreesboro to marry James K. Polk of Columbia—included ten enslaved people. She and her brother worked behind-the-scenes to buy slaves for James’s Mississippi Delta plantation while he was president, and she became the owner of fifty-six enslaved workers there when James died.
Sarah Childress Polk (Murfreesboro, 4 settembre 1803 – Nashville, 14 agosto 1891) fu moglie di James K. Polk, l'undicesimo presidente degli Stati Uniti Indice 1 Biografia
