Polk, Trusten

Life Span
to
Full name
Trusten Polk
Place of Birth
Bridgeville, DE
Burial Place
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
5
Family
William M. Polk (father), Elizabeth W. Skinner (wife) 
Education
Yale
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Church or Religious Denomination
Methodist
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
US Senate
Governor
Local government
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee votes to expel Missouri Senators Waldo Johnson and Trusten Polk
The United States Senate expels Missouri Senators Waldo Johnson and Trusten Polk for treason
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Secession
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