Trusten Polk
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Trusten Polk (May 29, 1811 – April 16, 1876) was elected both Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator in 1856.
He was a Democrat and was born in Bridgeville, Delaware.
He served as governor from January 5, 1857 until February 27 when he resigned to become Senator.
Hancock Lee Jackson succeeded him as governor until the election of Robert Marcellus Stewart.
He was expelled from the U.S. Senate January 10, 1862, for support of the South in the American Civil War. He was a colonel in the Confederate Army; and a judge in the military courts of the department of Mississippi in 1864 and 1865.
After the war he was a lawyer in St. Louis, Missouri. He is buried there in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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| Preceded by Henry S. Geyer |
United States Senator (Class 1) from Missouri 1857–1862 Served alongside: James S. Green, Waldo P. Johnson |
Succeeded by John B. Henderson |
| Preceded by Sterling Price |
Governor of Missouri 1857 |
Succeeded by Hancock Lee Jackson |
| Governors of Missouri |  |
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| McNair • Bates • Williams • Miller • Dunklin • Boggs • Reynolds • M. Marmaduke • Edwards • King • Price • Polk • H. Jackson • Stewart • C. Jackson • Gamble • Hall • Fletcher • McClurg • Brown • Woodson • Hardin • Phelps • Crittenden • J. Marmaduke • Morehouse • Francis • Stone • Stephens • Dockery • Folk • Hadley • Major • Gardner • Hyde • Baker • Caulfield • Park • Stark • Donnell • Donnelly • Smith • Donnelly • Blair • Dalton • Hearnes • Bond • Teasdale • Bond • Ashcroft • Carnahan • Wilson • Holden • Blunt |
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