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Sarah Childress Polk - First Lady

Sarah Polk, wife of eleventh United States President James K. Polk, served as First Lady from 1845 - 1849.

Biography

Biography on the official White House website.

Bibliography

Resources (mostly print) from www.firstladies.org - the National First Ladies Library.

Portrait (Library of Congress)

Currier and Ives lithograph after daguerreotype by John Plumbe.

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