Tag Archives: First Lady Sarah Polk

G.P.A. Healy and the Portraits of Presidents

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Feather Foster

The Young Artist George Peter Alexander (usually known as G.P.A.) Healy was definitely born poor in 1813 to Irish immigrants in Boston. A bit late to his calling, he was sixteen when he first picked up a brush, but the … Continue reading →

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Sarah Polk: Gas Lighting

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Feather Foster

Sarah Childress Polk was FLOTUS in the mid-1840s – a time of major technical and industrial advances. Technology, Circa 1840s When James and Sarah Polk were in the White House (1845-49), the country had grown enormously. Between 1830 and 1840, … Continue reading →

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Sarah Polk’s Memoirs

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Feather Schwartz Foster

First Lady Sarah Childress Polk lived to be nearly ninety. Miss Childress of Tennessee Sarah Childress (1803-1891) was born to a comfortable Murfreesboro, Tennessee family, not long after it had joined the Union. Her Presbyterian father was a planter and … Continue reading →

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Andrew Jackson Introduces the Polks

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Feather Schwartz Foster

James Knox Polk and his wife, Sarah Childress, had a match made by none other than General Andrew Jackson himself. James K. Polk: Young Attorney James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was North Carolina born, but Tennessee raised and matured. An unimposing … Continue reading →

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