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Sarah Childress Polk. This oil on canvas painting of First Lady Sarah Polk was completed by artist George Dury in 1883, 34 years after President James Polk's term ended. Dury modeled his portrait after George P. A. Healy's 1846 portrait of Mrs. Polk. Sarah Polk was a well-educated woman and was highly active in her husband's political life. She ...
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.
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 var dotter till en förmögen handelsman och studerade vid Female Academy i Salem, North Carolina, vilken betraktades som den bästa flickskolan i Sydstaterna. Hon gifte sig med James K. Polk den 1 januari 1824. Äktenskapet blev barnlöst. Istället ägnade hon sig åt att stödja maken i hans politiska karriär.
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
