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William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) —
also known as William A. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born near Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., September
5, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1833-40; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1840-43; Governor of
North Carolina, 1845-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1850-52; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1852; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1854-66; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
11, 1875 (age 70 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hillsborough
Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, N.C.
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.;
reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Henry Marchmore Shaw (1819-1864) —
also known as Henry M. Shaw —
of Indiantown (now Shawboro), Currituck
County, N.C.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., November
20, 1819.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1853-55,
1857-59; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Slaveowner.
While assembling with other Confederate troops for an expedition, he
was shot and
killed,
near New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., February
1, 1864 (age 44 years, 73
days).
Interment at Shawboro
Cemetery, Shawboro, N.C.
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Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) —
also known as Samuel McD. Tate —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
6, 1830.
Democrat. Merchant;
postmaster at Morganton,
N.C., 1856-60; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; president, Western North Carolina Railroad,
1865 and 1866-68; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1875; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1876,
1880;
North
Carolina state treasurer, 1892-94.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died June 25,
1897 (age 66 years, 292
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of David Tate and Susan Maria (Tate) Tate; married 1865 to Jane
Sophronia 'Jennie' Pearson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James White (1747-1821) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., 1747.
Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1797-98, 1801-05.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., August
14, 1821 (age about 74
years).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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