Trusten Polk

Trusts Polk (* May 29, 1811 in Bridgeville, Delaware, † April 16, 1876 in St. Louis ) was an American politician and the year of 1857 the 12th Governor of Missouri.

Early years

Polk attended after elementary school Yale University. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1835 as a lawyer. Then he started in St. Louis, where he had since moved to work as a lawyer. From 1843 he was a lawyer in the employ of the city.

Political career

In 1845, Polk was a delegate at a conference to revise the State Constitution of Missouri. In 1848 he belonged to the Democratic party to the Electoral College. On August 4, 1856 he was finally elected as the new governor of Missouri.

Polk was introduced to this office on January 5, 1857. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed by the Legislature for United States Senator for Missouri. Then he performed on February 27, 1857 back by the Office of the Governor. Between March 4, 1857 to January 10, 1862, he represented his country in Washington. As a supporter of the Confederacy, he was expelled from the Congress on this day. He then joined the Army of the Southern States, in which he rose to the Colonel. In 1864 he was taken prisoner.

After the Civil War, he returned to St. Louis as a lawyer. There he died in 1876. With his wife Elizabeth Skinner trusts Polk had five children.