Preceded by 11th Governor Sterling Price Preceded by Henry S. Geyer |
Trusten Polk 12th Governor of Missouri1857 US Senator (Class 1) from Missouri[1]1857—1862 |
Succeeded by 13th Governor Hancock Lee Jackson Succeeded by John B. Henderson |
Trusten W Polk served as the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and United States Senator from 1857 to 1862. Polk was expelled from the Senate 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, until taken prisoner. After the war, Polk was a lawyer in St Louis, Missouri.[2][3]
Son of William Nutter Polk and Lavenia Causey. Husband of Elizabeth Newberry Skinner.[4] Final resting place in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri.[5]
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