Leonidas Polk
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Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Ep
Photograph of Polk in uniform, c. 1863–64
Leonidas Polk
St. John's Church at Ashwood
William Mecklenburg Polk
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William Mecklenburg Polk was an American physician. From 1911 to 1912 he was vice president, then from 1912 to 1913 president of the Aztec Club of 1847.
Leonidas Polk
…until 2023. Polk's nephew, Lucius E. Polk, was also a Confederate general. Lucius E. Polk's son Rufus King Polk was a Congressman. Leonidas Polk's son, William Mecklenburg Polk, was a physician and a Confederate captain who later served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I. He later authored his most…
Dr. William Mecklenburg Polk