Vanleer Polk

Vanleer Polk
Born	1858
Died	1907
Occupation	Politician, diplomat
Parent(s)	Andrew Jackson Polk Rebecca Van Leer
Relatives	William Polk (paternal grandfather) Antoinette Polk (sister)

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

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

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

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

He died in 1907.

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