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James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate, laid out his foreign policy and domestic aims early, achieved them in one term and then declined to run again. Billed as the "Manifest Destiny ...
Fulfilling a campaign promise, James K. Polk served only one term in the White House. But in domestic and foreign affairs—in ways that defined and shaped the years of his own public life and continue to weigh upon our age—he left a ubiquitous and, even now, contested legacy. Born in North Carolina in 1795, Polk
James K. Polk's Scots-Irish ancestors settled in the United States in the 1720s, first in Pennsylvania, and then moving to North Carolina and finally to Tennessee. Both his grandfathers had fought in the Revolutionary War. Born in 1795, James lived the first ten years of his life in rural North Carolina.
James K. Polk – the 11th president of the United States – led the country to its greatest territorial expansion, stretching the U.S. from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. He also oversaw the successful, but controversial, Mexican-American War. James Knox Polk was born in rural North Carolina in 1795.
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James K. Polk was born on November 2, 1795, in a log cabin in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The oldest of ten children, James moved to Middle Tennessee in 1806 when he was ten years old.
Trots att han varit talman var Polk relativt okänd och många whigs frågade för att irritera demokraterna: Who is James K. Polk? ("Vem är James K. Polk?") När Polk fick veta att han var presidentkandidat, kommenterade han att han aldrig hade sökt presidentämbetet men att han inte heller skulle tacka nej till det om medborgarna av fri ...
James K. Polk gained the presidency in 1844 in part on the Democratic Party's expansionist pledge to seize all of the Oregon territory for the United States. America had jointly occupied Oregon with Britain since 1818, when the two nations began negotiating over a final boundary in the territory.
