VanLeer Polk

VanLeer Polk (a.k.a. Van Leer Polk) (1858-1907) was an American politician and diplomat from Tennessee.

VanLeer Polk
Born1858
Died1907
OccupationPolitician, diplomat
Parent(s)Andrew Jackson Polk
Rebecca Van Leer
RelativesWilliam Polk (paternal grandfather)
Antoinette Polk (sister)

Early life

VanLeer Polk was born in 1858. His father, Andrew Jackson Polk, was the son of Colonel William Polk.[1] His mother, Rebecca Van Leer, was an heiress to an iron fortune from Cumberland Furnace.[1] Polk grew up at Ashwood Hall in Ashbrook, near Columbia, Tennessee.[1]

Career

Polk was a member of the Democratic Party.[2] He served in the Tennessee Senate in the 1890s, representing Maury County.[2] With Flourney Rivers, a state senator for Giles County, he introduced railroad commission bills.[2]

Polk was appointed as Consul-General in Bombay, India, by President Grover Cleveland.[3] Later, he was appointed as one of five delegates to Brazil by President Theodore Roosevelt.[3]

Death

He died in 1907.

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References

  1. Garrett, Jill K. (Spring 1970). "St. John's Church, Ashwood". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 29 (1): 3–23. JSTOR 42623126.
  2. Connie L. Lester, Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915, University of Georgia Press, 2006, p. 172
  3. "Lucky Frenchman Has Won the Love of Gladys Deacon: After the Affairs of a Smitten Prince and a Duke "Turned Down," Comes the Triumph of Young Baron de Charette, And Another International Romance Is Launched". Palestine Daily Herald. 13 April 1908. p. 6. Retrieved July 10, 2015 via Newspapers.com.


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