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| | James K. Polk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Polk was admitted to the bar in 1820, and established his own practice in Columbia. | | | Polk appointed the following Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court: | | | A Democrat, Polk served as Speaker of the House (1835–1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841) prior to becoming president. |
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | Polk was admitted to the bar, and established himself at Columbia, the county-seat of Maury county. | | | POLK, James Knox, eleventh president of the United States, born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, 2 November, 1795; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 15 June, 1849. | | | Polk, in a letter dated 19 May, 1848, reiterated his decision not to become a candidate again for the presidency, and retired at the close of his term of office to his home in Nashville with the intention not to re-enter public life. |
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| | MSN Encarta - James Polk |
| | James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1795, in a log cabin in Mecklenburg County on the North Carolina frontier. | | | Polk, James Knox (1795-1849), 11th president of the United States (1845-1849). | | | There were no anesthetics at that time, and Polk had to be strapped to the table and held by his father while the operation was performed. |
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| | JAMES KNOX POLK - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES KNOX POLK |
| | Polk was elected, receiving 170 electoral votes to 105 for his opponent Clay. | | | The unequivocal stand of Polk and his party in favor of the immediate annexation of Texas and the adoption of a vigorous policy in Oregon contrasted favorably with the timid vacillations of Henry Clay and the Whigs. | | | Bancrofts opinion is that Polk was prudent, fat-sighted, bold, exceeding any Democrat of his day in his undeviatingly correct exposition of Democratic principles. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/POLK_JAMES_KNOX.htm
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| | James K. Polk |
| | James Knox Polk was born on his family farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1795. | | | Polk received one delegate vote for the presidential nomination during the eighth round of voting, and won the nomination with 233 votes in the next round making him the first dark-horse candidate to win his party's nomination. | | | In the election, Polk defeated Clay and Birney to become the eleventh president of the United States. |
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http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/polk.htm
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | Polk was the youngest man the United States had ever elected president, forty-nine at his inauguration. | | | James K. Polk was president in an age that transformed the United States into a major continental power; he was commander-in-chief in a war that extended its boundaries to the Rio Grande, the Pacific, and the forty-ninth parallel. | | | Polk dreaded social gathering, and in one of his first acts as president banished dancing from the white House. |
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| | Human Events: James Knox Polk: A Great Wartime President |
| | Polk then studied law in the office of Felix Grundy, a noted criminal lawyer who had served as a state legislator and chief justice of the state supreme court, passing the bar exam in June of 1820. | | | Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and grew up in Tennessee, where his grandfather and father "imbued him with the principles of Jefferson," as famed historian George Bancroft, who served in his cabinet, pointed out. | | | Polk returned home to run for governor of Tennessee. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200411/ai_n9470596
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| | PBS - THE WEST - James K. Polk |
| | Polk rose to become Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839, when he was elected governor of Tennessee. | | | But Polk was defeated in 1841 and 1843 runs for the governorship, and it seemed that his political career had stalled. | | | In 1825, Polk won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and quickly became a protegé of Andrew Jackson, staunchly supporting both state's rights and Jackson's efforts to destroy the national bank. |
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http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/polk.htm
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| | President James Knox Polk |
| | James Knox Polk, whose Scottish roots were in the Pollok family was born in 1795, and he began practicing law in Nashville, Tennessee, after graduating from the University of North Carolina. | | | After election to the state house of representatives in 1823, Polk married Sara Childress, daughter of a socially prominent family. | | | He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1825 and remained there until 1839, serving as Speaker of the House for his last two terms. |
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http://www.clanmaxwellusa.com/JKPolk.htm
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Young Hickory, as Polk came to be called, was not widely loved, but he was respected for his dedication to the Democratic party and for his prowess as a speaker and politician. | | | In 1839 Polk retired from Congress to become governor of Tennessee. | | | An ardent supporter of President Andrew Jackson, Polk rose steadily within the ranks of the Democratic party of Tennessee. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/presidents/polk_james.html
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| | Polk was born on Nov. 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, N.C. As a boy he moved to what is now Maury County, Tenn., with his parents, Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk. | | | Polk's earlier stand had encouraged the "All of Oregon" men in his party to adopt the cry of "Fifty-four Forty or Fight," however, and they denounced his acceptance of compromise. | | | Polk was soon devoting more time to politics than to law. |
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http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpXII/James%20Knox%20Polk.txt.htm
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1795, Polk grew up to be such an avid supporter of Andrew Jackson and his expansionist point of view that he earned the nickname "Young Hickory" and, after moving to Tennessee, won Jackson's old Congressional seat eight times. | | | Yet all this might not have been, had President James Knox Polk not pursued his principles with such vigor. | | | The Democrats had no notion of selecting Polk when they began their convention in Baltimore, but he became a "dark horse" candidate and managed to secure the nomination. |
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| | American President |
| | In 1825, Polk was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served for six terms. | | | The election was vicious, with slavery and slander at its center. | | | With Jackson behind him, Polk became the Speaker of the House in 1835, a position he held for four years. |
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http://www.americanpresident.org/history/jamespolk
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| | Polk, James Knox -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Polk, James K. 11th president of the United States (1845–49). | | | Brief biography of James Polk, the eleventh President of the United States of America. | | | James K. Polk, daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, 1849. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?tocId=9276489&query=john
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | James Knox Polk: Presidency - Presidency To the surprise of many, the new President proved to be his own man; he even ignored... | | | James Knox Polk - Polk, James Knox, 1795–1849, 11th President of the United States (1845–49), b. | | | Polk died in Nashville, Tenn., on June 15, 1849. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760596.html
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| | Chapter 15 - James Knox Polk |
| | Polk went on to study law in Tennessee, and was admitted to the Bar in 1820. | | | James Polk moved to Tennessee with his family in 1806, and returned to N.C. for college in 1815. | | | He served in the Tennessee Legislature between 1823 and 1825, and it was during that time that he became a friend of Andrew Jackson. |
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http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/di_phi/reference_desk/docs/reckford/chapter15.htm
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| | James Knox Polk Biography / Biography of James Knox Polk Biography Biography |
| | As a Jacksonian, Polk was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1825, becoming a leader of his party. | | | James K. Polk was born on Nov. 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. | | | Elected to the legislature in 1822, Polk became known as an opponent of the state's banks and land speculators. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-james-knox-polk
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| | James Knox Polk Morelock |
| | James P Morelock was born in the Grande Ronde Valley September 23, 1872, the son E. B and Rebecca Harris. | | | He received his education in the schools of Union County and at the age of 16 was ready to start out on his own. | | | They had two other children who were raised in Wallowa, James Edward and Martha Eileen Morelock Andrews. |
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http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/wallowa/jpmorelockbio.htm
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| | RootsWeb: CAMPBELL-L Campbell, James Knox Polk (TN, 1827) |
| | RootsWeb: CAMPBELL-L Campbell, James Knox Polk (TN, 1827) | | | JKP Campbell served in the 1850s in Washington inthe Post | | | Its time for another try for info on James Knox Polk Campbell. |
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http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/CAMPBELL/1998-04/0892338809
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| | IPL POTUS -- James Knox Polk |
| | A case for considering Polk as one of the "near-great" presidents. | | | James K. Polk -- from The Presidents of the United States of America | | | James Knox Polk -- from the Hall of Forgotten Presidents |
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http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/POTUS/jkpolk.html
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| | NCHS - James K. Polk Memorial |
| | Polk became the first dark horse in American politics when he was chosen over Martin Van Buren as the Democratic nominee for president against Henry Clay of the Whig party. | | | Born in 1795 on the 250-acre farm worked by his parents, Jane and Samuel, James Knox Polk spent most of his childhood among the gently rolling hills of Mecklenburg County. | | | Young James attended academies there, then returned to North Carolina to become an honor student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/polk/polk.htm
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| | American Experience The Presidents James K. Polk PBS |
| | Polk arrived in the White House with two major foreign policy objectives: settling the borders of the Oregon territory, and acquiring California (his plan to annex Texas was pre-emptively passed in a bill in Congress). | | | When Van Buren's position against the annexation of Texas became known, ex-president Andrew Jackson and others threw their support behind Polk, as an expansionist candidate. | | | Having achieved all the goals he set for himself in an exhausting four year term, Polk retired to Nashville and died three months later. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/11_polk
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| | JUDGE JAMES KNOX POLK CANSLER |
| | JUDGE JAMES KNOX POLK CANSLER was born in Christian County, August 11, 1844, in the heat of the campaign that resulted in the election of Polk as President over Henry Clay. | | | James Cooksey, then Timothy Keys); Nancy Minerva (m. | | | He grew up on his father's farm, and when only seventeen years old voluntered for service in the Union army and enlisted October 15, 1861, in the 25th Kentucky Infantry. |
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| | Visiting President Polk's Grave |
| | ...Polk's place in the Hall of Forgotten Presidents... | | | Here I am on the Tennessee State Capitol building grounds in Nashville, Tennessee, visiting the chamber under which are buried President Polk and his wife.... | | | ...The James K. Polk Memorial at his North Carolina Birthplace... |
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http://www.diplom.org/manus/Presidents/jkp
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| | Family Records - JAMES K. P. TEAGUE & JANE RISNER. |
| | JAMES K. TEAGUE was born March 07, 1839 in Cherokee County, Alabama, the son of Silas Teague & Nancy (Golden). | | | She was born 1840 in Cherokee County, Alabama. | | | Family Records - JAMES K. TEAGUE Family Resource Centre |
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| | The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hall, J. |
| | Hall, James — of Davenport, Scott County, Iowa. | | | Hall, James E. — of Warren, Macomb County, Mich. American Independent candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, | | | Delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention 20th District, 1907-08. |
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| | Young Students Learning Library: POLK, JAMES KNOX (1795-1849)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Polk was born in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. | | | ``Fifty-four forty or fight!'' was the campaign slogan of James K. Polk, who became the eleventh President of the United States. | | | He was finally forced to compromise with the British, and the boundary between the United States and Canada was set at the 49th parallel. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28017264&refid=ip_almanac_hf
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | Polk was a chief influence In the House of Representatives helping Andrew Jackson with his Bank policy. | | | He settled into a quiet retirement in Nashville, he fell ill only three months after leaving office and died there on June 15, 1849. | | | Probably no president ever worked more diligently at his job than Polk, and when his term ended he was near exhaustion. |
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http://www.gamepuppet.com/presidents/james-polk.htm
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| | Term Papers on James Knox Polk |
| | James Knox Polk, (1795-1849), 11th President of the United States, he was one of the hardest-working presidents in American history, Polk was unusually successful in accomplishing in a single four-year term his ambitious goals in both domestic and foreign policy. | | | Settling into a quiet retirement in Nashville, he fell ill only three months after leaving office and died there on June 15, 1849. | | | Death Probably no president ever worked harder at his job than Polk, and by the end of his term he was near collapse. |
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| | Presidential Inaugurations: James Knox Polk, Inauguration, March 4, 1845 |
| | Presidential Inaugurations: James Knox Polk, Inauguration, March 4, 1845 | | | Transcription from The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. | | | James K. Polk, President of the United States, 1845. |
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| | HistoryBuff.com -- James Knox Polk's Inaugural Address |
| | The inaugural ceremonies of former Tennessee Governor and Speaker of the House James Knox Polk were conducted before a large crowd that stood in the pouring rain. | | | The popular politician had been nominated on the ninth ballot as his party's candidate. | | | Inaugural Address Given at Capitol Building, Washington, DC Tuesday, March 4, 1845 |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: BLACKBURN, JAMES KNOX POLK |
| | James Blackburn, soldier, was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1837 and moved with his family to Texas in 1856. | | | Handbook of Texas Online: BLACKBURN, JAMES KNOX POLK |
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| | Alibris: James Knox Polk Miller |
| | The road to Virginia City: the diary of James Knox Polk Miller. | | | Your search: Books » Author: James Knox Polk Miller |
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | He was elected over Henry Clay by a popular vote of 1,338,464 to 1,300,097 and an electoral vote of 170 to 105. | | | James Knox Polk was the 11th United States President. | | | Worn out from his hard work, he died three months after leaving office. |
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knoxweb/james_knox_polk.htm
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| | Trovillion, James Knox Polk |
| | James Knox Polk Trovillion, son of James Y. and Betty Anne (Maddox) Trovillion, was born in Pope county, Illinois, April 2d, 1845, and died in the county of his birth, at Brownfield, May 17, 1927. | | | His father, veteran of the Black Hawk and Mexican wars, with the mother, scions of old and highly esteemed families from the south, came to this state following the close of the Mexican War, and reared a large family. | | | His early life was largely influenced by that of his older brother, Ned, (Elder Elijah Edward Trovillion) and at the age of fifteen years, in company with the bosom friend of his life, "Jimmie" Carr (the late Dr. James Carr, of Galatia, Ill.) he was baptized by Eld. |
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| | Francis Marion LAYTON/Hannay MEREDITH |
| | Name: James Knox Polk LAYTON Born: 13 AUG 1846 at: Terre Haute, Indiana Married: at: Died: 27 JUL 1882 at: Terre Haute, Indiana Spouses: | | | Name: Eliza Jane LAYTON Born: 10 JUN 1847 at: Ohio Married: at: Died: 7 JUL 1921 at: Spouses: | | | Name: Angeline LAYTON Born: 24 MAR 1845 at: Terre Haute, Indiana Married: at: Died: 23 AUG 1893 at: Spouses: |
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: James Knox Polk |
| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: James Knox Polk | | | The value is read into the footer.js Javascript, which writes the copyright information at the bottom of the page. | | | You can use HTML tags in order to specify an e-mail address or a URL --> |
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| | James Knox Polk/Sarah Childress |
| | Born: 2 NOV 1795 at: Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina Married: 1 JAN 1824 at: Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tennessee Died: 15 JUN 1849 at: Nashville, Tennessee Father:Samuel Polk Mother:Jane Knox Other Spouses: | | | Born: 4 SEP 1803 at: Nr Murfreesboro, Tennessee Died: 14 AUG 1891 at: Nashville, Tennessee Father: Mother: Other Spouses: | | | Please click Here to Order or just to get More Information |
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| | James K. Polk Home |
| | Free Admission Day in honor of President Polk's Birthday | | | This deluxe, boxed, limited edition will be available for Christmas, 2005. | | | 10:00am Wreath Laying Ceremony at the grave of President Polk on Capitol Grounds, Nashviille |
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| | Bio - Wilson, James Knox Polk of Co G |
| | James Knox Polk Wilson was born in Lee County, Iowa on September 6, 1845, and died August 27, 1923 at 5:30 p.m. | | | James K. Polk Wilson departed this life at his home in Kahoka, Missouri. | | | Bio - Wilson, James Knox Polk of Co G |
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | Polk was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. | | | Went on to win the Presidency in 1844. |
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| | James Knox Polk |
| | James Knox Polk was an expansionist President -- who demanded control of the entire Oregon territory, and who laid the groundwork for the Mexican War and the subsequent annexation of California and much of the West in the cause of "Manifest Destiny." |
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| | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of James Knox Polk |
| | Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. | | | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of James Knox Polk | | | Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. |
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| | James Knox Polk Clipart |
| | Keywords: portrait, US President, Eleventh president, James K. Polk | | | Source: John Fiske, How the US Became a Nation (Boston: Gin & Company, 1904) |
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| | A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk by ... |
| | A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk by Compiled by James D. Richardson | | | A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk by Compiled by James D. Richardson eBook by BookRags | | | Home › eBooks › A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Polk - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 4: James Knox Polk |
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| | Archive Photos: James Knox Polk@ HighBeam Research |
| | America¹s eleventh President, James K. Polk pictured in a rigid pose. | | | In office from 1845 to 1849, Polk embraced the expansionist mood of Manifest Destiny and oversaw the addition of both Texas and California to the Union, winning the 1846 Mexican War in the process. |
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