^Sarah Childress Polk.[永久失效連結] James attended the University of North Carolina with Sarah's brother Anderson, so he could have reintroduced the couple. The White House. Retrieved on October 14, 2007.
^History.com, Staff. Sarah Polk. History.com. A+E Networks. （原始内容存档于2021-02-27）.
^Schneider, D., & Schneider, C. J. (2010). First ladies: A biographical dictionary. New York: Facts On File. p. 72. ISBN1438127502
^Schneider, D., & Schneider, C. J. (2010). First ladies: A biographical dictionary. New York: Facts On File. p. 73. ISBN1438127502
^Schneider, D., & Schneider, C. J. (2010). First ladies: A biographical dictionary. New York: Facts On File. pp. 75–76. ISBN1438127502
^Schneider, D., & Schneider, C. J. (2010). First ladies: A biographical dictionary. New York: Facts On File. p. 76. ISBN1438127502
^Sarah Childress Polk – The White House. The White House. （原始内容存档于2021-04-14）. Contrasted with Julia Tyler's waltzes, her entertainments have become famous for sedateness and sobriety. Some later accounts say that the Polks never served wine, but in December 1845 a Congressman's wife recorded in her diary details of a four-hour dinner for forty at the White House--glasses for six different wines, from pink champagne to ruby port and sauterne, "formed a rainbow around each plate."
^Portrait and biographical record of Stark county, Ohio: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portrait of all the presidents of the United States. 1892. p.60.
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