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James Knox Polk (/ p oʊ k /; [1] November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849.A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of Jacksonian democracy and extending the territory of the United States.
The presidency of James K. Polk began on March 4, 1845, when James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849. He was a Democrat , and assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election .
After Henry Baldwin's death in 1844, James K. Polk nominated James Buchanan, who declined the nomination. [13] Polk then nominated George W. Woodward, but the Senate rejected him by a vote of 20–29. [13] Baldwin was finally replaced by Robert Cooper Grier in 1846. [4]
Thompson’s narrative of Mount Tabor’s founding is based on an executive order that he says President James K. Polk issued in 1844, endorsing the establishment of a Cherokee settlement in the ...
On the eighth ballot, the historian George Bancroft, a delegate from Massachusetts, proposed former House Speaker James K. Polk as a compromise candidate. Polk argued that Texas and Oregon had always belonged to the United States by right. He called for "the immediate re-annexation of Texas" and for the "re-occupation" of the disputed Oregon ...
The 1844 presidential campaign of James K. Polk, then both the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives and governor of Tennessee, was announced on May 27, 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland, however Polk had originally sought the vice-presidential nomination. At the 1844 Democratic National Convention on May 27, seven ballots were ...
On election day, 5 August 1841, Whig nominee James C. Jones won the election by a margin of 3,243 votes against his Democratic opponent and incumbent Governor James K. Polk, thereby gaining Whig control over the office of Governor.
The narrow victory of James K. Polk (Democrat) over Henry Clay (Whig) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the Southern Whigs by surprise. The key element of this defeat, which carried over into the congressional and local races in 1845 and 1846 throughout the South, was the party's failure to take a strong stand favoring Texas annexation.