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Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Colonel William and Sarah (née Hawkins) Polk. William was a Revolutionary War veteran and prosperous planter. He was of Scottish And Anglo-Huguenot ancestry.
William Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on July 9, 1758, the eldest child of Thomas Polk and his wife Sussana Spratt. From the earliest days of rebellion against British authority, Mecklenburg had been a hotbed of revolutionary fervor, and the Polk family was very active in this cause.
After volunteering for service in 1917, William Polk was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps upon his death on June 23, 1918. [1] [2] His son, Frank Polk, served as counselor to the Department of State through World War One and later became the first US Under Secretary of State. [3]
The Polk family was a prominent political and military family in US history, originating from Scots-Irish Presbyterian immigrants to North America in colonial times. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Leonidas Lafayette Polk (April 24, 1837 – June 11, 1892), or L.L. Polk, was an American farmer, journalist and political figure. He was a leader of the Farmers' Alliance and helped found the Populist Party .
Variant of the Polk pattern flag. Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk commanded the corps from November 26, 1862, and held it with minor interruptions until his relief on September 29, 1863, and subsequent arrest on October 23, 1863. [1] It participated in the Tennessee Campaign (June to October 1863) under General Braxton Bragg.
William Morris, Des Moines Register February 29, 2024 at 4:10 AM The last in a series of lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct by a former Polk County Jail doctor has concluded with a $7,500 ...
Leonidas Polk, the wing commander, decided to ride forward to see who had been the victims of the supposedly friendly fire. Polk found that he had ridden by mistake into the lines of the 22nd Indiana and was forced to bluff his way out by riding down the Union line pretending to be a Union officer and shouting at the Federal troops to cease fire.