James K. Polk and Sarah Childress Polk.

Polk was then 28, and Sarah was 20 years old.

Polk was so active that Sarah began to worry about his health.

After Congress went into recess in the summer of 1826, Polk returned to Tennessee to see Sarah, and when Congress met again in the autumn, Polk returned to Washington with Sarah.

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Among its alumnae is Sarah Childress Polk, wife of U. S. President James Knox Polk.

Sarah Childress Polk ( September 4, 1803 – August 14, 1891 ) was the wife of the 11th President of the United States, James Polk, and the 12th woman to serve as First Lady.

Sarah met James Polk while both were receiving instruction from Samuel P. Black in Murfreesboro, Tennessee ; he was 19, she was 12.

Sarah Childress, aged 20, married James Polk, aged 28, on January 1, 1824, at the plantation home of the bride's parents near Murfreesboro.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Polk assumed guardianship of an orphaned niece, Sarah Polk Jetton ( 1847 – 1924 ), and raised the girl as her own.

Legend says Andrew Jackson called her “ wealthy, pretty, ambitious, and intelligent ,” and urged James K. Polk to marry Sarah Childress, which he did.

In 1845, Sarah Polk became the 11th First Lady of the United States She was lively, charming, intelligent, and a good conversationalist.

After attending the inauguration of James Polk's successor, Zachary Taylor, on March 5, 1849, he and Sarah left by horse and carriage to their new home " Polk Place " in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sarah Polk lived on in that home for 42 years.

Only 41 when her husband became president, widow Mrs. Sarah Polk outlived several of her successors: Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eliza Johnson and Lucy Webb Hayes.

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While in Washington, where he met with President James K. Polk ( whose wife Sarah Childress Polk, was Meek's cousin ), he argued forcefully for making the Oregon Country a federal territory.

The second President from Tennessee, James K. Polk, is buried in a tomb on the grounds, together with his wife, Sarah Childress Polk.

In 1968, Atwood married Jim Polk ; they were divorced in 1973.

The first people to call Polk County home arrived close to 12, 000 years ago during the last ice age as the first paleo-indians arrived on the peninsula of Florida as they followed big game southward.

When the legislature acted to create the county, however, they named it after another grandson, James K. Polk, who was the Speaker of the House in the U. S. House of Representatives at the time, and later, President.

Jefferson Davis advised Polk that if Mexico appointed commissioners to come to the U. S., the government that appointed them would probably be overthrown before they completed their mission, and they would likely be shot as traitors on their return ; so that the only hope of peace was to have a U. S representative in Mexico.

Sheridan's aggressiveness convinced the opposing Confederates under Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, that they should remain on the defensive.

President James K. Polk sent negotiators but they were rejected by Mexico, whose government was in turmoil.

However, the area they serve identically covers much of the Polk County area previously represented by Andy Ireland when it was part of the.

In descending order of forestland area they are Polk, Monroe, Carter, Unicoi, Cocke, Johnson, Greene, Sullivan, Washington, McMinn, and Ashe counties.

Polk County originally planned to close the Convention Complex when Hy-Vee Hall opened, but they decided to transfer management of the building to Global Spectrum in August 2004.

The Californios were native to the region of California and according to the United States, they stood in the way of progress and put a halt on manifest destiny, something that James Polk would not allow.

* for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad from a point on or near Gasparilla Island, in the county of Lee, via the town of Arcadia, in the county of DeSoto, to Plant City, in the county of Hillsborough, and to the city of Lakeland, in the county of Polk, with such extensions and branches as they may deem necessary.

( Willis Polk, a distinguished American architect in his own right, was said to have chafed under the strict instruction of Mrs. Carolan to execute Sanson's French plans faithfully, despite the fact that they were intended for a different climate and notated in the metric system.

In comparing Polk ’ s works to Joshua Johnson, they have very similar style in positioning objects and creating composition.

Johnston, believing that the opportunity for a successful battle had passed, ordered Hood and Polk to move to a new line east and south of Cassville, where they were joined by Hardee who had been pushed out of Kingston.

* Davis Polk ranked among the top three U. S. law firms in a survey in which Fortune 250 law departments were asked to name the firms they rely on most in corporate transactions.