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	James K. Polk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849.
		Polk again vigorously championed the cause of expansion, forcefully suggesting that the United States acquire the entire territory, whose northern boundary was the parallel 54°40'.
		Polk set four clearly defined goals for his administration: the re-establishment of the independent treasury, the reduction of tariffs, the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute, and the acquisition of California from Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Knox_Polk (3337 words)

	James Knox Polk
		Polk was admitted to the bar, and established himself at Columbia, the county-seat of Maury county.
		Polk was again a candidate for the governorship, although his defeat was a foregone conclusion in view of the political whirlwind that had swept over the country in 1840 and resulted in the election of William Henry Harrison to the presidency.
		Polk had been nominated by the legislature of Tennessee as its candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Martin Van Buren, and other states had followed the example: but Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, seemed to be the choice of the great body of the Democratic party, and he was accordingly nominated.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesknoxpolk (4960 words)

	JAMES KNOX POLK - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES KNOX POLK
		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.
		Polk was an ardent expansionist, but the old idea that his policy was determined entirely by a desire I to advance the interests of slavery is no longer accepted.
		See John S. Jenkins, James Knox Polk (Auburn and Buffalo, 1850), and L. Chase, History of the Polk Administration (New York, 1850), both of which contain some documentary material, but are not discriminating in their method of treatment.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POLK_JAMES_KNOX.htm (989 words)

	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.
		James was not a healthy youth, and severe abdominal pains prevented him from leading an active life.
		Polk began his formal education when he was 18, at a church school near his home.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563985/James_Knox_Polk.html (644 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - James Knox Polk
		James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849) was the 11th (1845 - 1849) President of the United States.
		Polk was a member of the United States House of Representatives (1825 - 1839), also serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1835 - 1839), and Governor of Tennessee (1839 - 1841).
		Polk passed away on August 14, 1891, she was mourned by a nation that regarded her as a precious link to the past.
	www.usa-presidents.info /polk.htm (553 words)

	Polk, James Knox. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Polk served in the state legislature (1823–25) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1825–39), where he was speaker for the years 1835–39.
		Polk campaigned on an expansionist platform and narrowly defeated Henry Clay by carrying New York state, where the presidential candidacy of James G. Birney of the Liberty party cut into Clay’s vote.
		Polk announced that his administration would achieve “four great measures”: reduction of the tariff; reestablishment of the independent treasury; settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute; and the acquisition of California.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Polk-Jam.html (527 words)

	James Knox Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So little known was Polk as a national figure that the Whigs responded with the campaign slogan "Who Is Polk?" However, the energetic Polk, despite the fact of being regarded as sometimes aloof and cold, soundly defeated Whig candidate Henry Clay in his third bid to become President.
		Polk remained focused on the ideals of "mainifest destiny", as opposed to merely acquiring land for its own sake, and rejected suggestions that the U.S. seize parts of Canada up to Alaska or the entire nation of Mexico.
		Polk properly reasoned that those acquisitions simply weren't needed to serve the legitimate purpose of securing the nation and its noble purposes from foreign intervention.
	www.paulsilhan.com /pres3.htm (617 words)

	President James Knox Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Polk’s stand on Oregon also risked war with Great Britain, but that war was avoided when Polk offered to settle by accepting a US-Canadian boundary along the 49th parallel rather than push ng a claim to the southern boundary of Russian Alaska as the "fifty-four forty or fight" extremists urged.
		James Knox Polk’s term as President is remembered mostly as a time of aggressive western expansion, but it took a great toll on his health.
	www.clanmaxwellusa.com /JKPolk.htm (395 words)

	James K. Polk
		James Knox Polk followed a career path which was blazed by Andrew Jackson.
		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.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/public/polk.htm (1244 words)

	James Knox Polk - Wikipédia
		James Knox Polk, (1795–1849), est le onzième président des États-Unis d'Amérique.
		James Polk signe ce compromis malgré sa promesse de campagne électorale et le slogan “54°40 ou mourir” qui se référait au parallèle situé près de 600 km plus au nord.
		Polk est à la tête d'un gouvernement énergique qui sépare nettement les prérogatives fédérales et celles des États.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Knox_Polk (922 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		POLK, James Knox (1795–1849), 11th president of the U.S. under whose leadership the country fought a victorious war with Mexico and greatly increased its territory by annexing Texas and all the land west of the Rocky Mountains.
		Polk was born on Nov. 2, 1795, to a comparatively wealthy and influential family in Mecklenburg Co., N.C. His mother was a descendant of the famous Scottish religious reformer John Knox.
		Polk’s cause was helped by the popular belief that the U.S. had a “manifest destiny”; to occupy the whole continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/presidents/polk_james.html (926 words)

	American President
		Polk was born on a family farm in North Carolina.
		Polk kept his word not to run for a second term and was succeeded in office by the hero of the Mexican War, Zachary Taylor, candidate of the opposition Whig Party.
		Polk left behind a country that was both larger and weaker -- expanded by more than a million square miles but fatally torn over the issue he had refused to address: slavery.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamespolk (1005 words)

	Shawnee News-Star: Opinion James Knox Polk -- Al Gore of earlier era 09/05/00
		Polk was known as "Young Hickory" for his relationship with Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, a charismatic Tennessean and the nation's seventh president.
		Polk served one term as Tennessee's governor, then lost two bids for re-election in 1841 and 1843 before seeking the presidency at Jackson's urging.
		Polk was born in North Carolina and Gore in Washington D.C., but both studied law in Tennessee and have homes near Nashville.
	www.news-star.com /stories/090500/opE_polk.shtml (791 words)

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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 won the election in 1839, but for the next few years his political career was stymied because of the growing strength of the Whig party in the state.
		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.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpXII/James%20Knox%20Polk.txt.htm (1314 words)

	Human Events: James Knox Polk: A Great Wartime President
		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.
		His mother, Jane Knox Polk, was a descendant of the same John Knox who launched the Reformation in Scotland and her, piety was an enduring force in his life.
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200411/ai_n9470596 (1370 words)

	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.
		Polk himself did not live to see it; long suffering from exhaustion and overwork, he died several months after the end of his term, on June 15, 1849.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/polk.htm (540 words)

	American Experience \| The Presidents \| James K. Polk \| PBS
		Polk was the last strong president before Lincoln, and he achieved most of the stated domestic goals of the Democratic Party, namely, substantially curtailing the use of federal funds for internal improvements, the restoration of an independent treasury and a reduction in tariffs.
		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).
		Polk sent General Zachary Taylor into the still-disputed Texas territory, and the presence of American troops on recently Mexican soil set off a war with Mexico.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/11_polk (435 words)

	POLK, James Knox (1795-1849) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845-1849, covering the Mexican war, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest.
		Polk, on the proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States, respecting the election of president and vice president.
		James K. Polk, of Tennessee, on his motion to recommit to the Committee on Ways and Means the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the removal of the Deposits.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=P000409 (718 words)

	James Knox Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Polk was the youngest man the United States had ever elected president, forty-nine at his inauguration.
	webs.lanset.com /bookfolk/polk.htm (425 words)

	TMBG: They Might Be Giants (Unofficially)
		Often referred to as the first "dark horse" President, James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House, and the last strong President until the Civil War.
		Polk was studious and industrious, graduating with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina.
		In the House of Representatives, Polk was a chief lieutenant of Jackson.
	www.tmbg.org /learning/jameskpolk (989 words)

	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: Early Career - Early Career His family moved (1806) to the Duck River valley in Tennessee and there, after...
		James Knox Polk HALL - HALL, James Knox Polk (1844—1915) HALL, James Knox Polk, a Representative from Pennsylvania;...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0760596.html (366 words)

	NCHS - James K. Polk Memorial
		The memorial commemorates significant events in the Polk administration: the Mexican-American War, settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute, and the annexation of California.
		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.
		Polk's remarkable achievements can be credited to his personal dedication and sincerity, as well as to the manner in which he conducted his office--the presidency was run like an efficient business.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/polk/polk.htm (1045 words)

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