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	James K. Polk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		President Polk is also notable for his support for the concept of Manifest Destiny—the idea that it was the United States' divine mission to expand westward—and for his affirmation of the Monroe Doctrine—the doctrine, first propounded by President James Monroe in 1823, that the Americas should be free from European colonization or other interference.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Knox_Polk (3337 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/Polk_James_Knox.html (644 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)

	James Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Polk was the first President to have his inauguration reported by telegraph.
		Polk was the first president to voluntarily retire after one term.
		Polk was a great-grandnephew of John Knox, founder of Scottish Presbyterianism.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/polk.html (112 words)

	James K. Polk
		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.
		Polk remained true to his campaign promise and did not seek a second term as president, retiring from office in 1849.
		James Polk began his journey to greatness in the land "where the weak grow strong, and the strong grow great", North Carolina.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/public/polk.htm (1244 words)

	James K. Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Polk again vigorously championed the cause of expansion, forcefully suggesting that the United States acquire the entire territory, whose northern boundary was the latitudeparallel 54°40'.
		Polk amended his planned speech and changed his casus belli, stating that Mexico had "invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil." However, he ignored the point that the territory in question was disputed, and did not unequivocally belong to the United States.
		James and Sarah Polk are buried in a tomb on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol Building, in Nashville.
	www.infothis.com /find/James_K._Polk (3271 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)

	James Knox Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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)

	James Polk
		Polk was born in 1795 in a log cabin in Mecklenburg County on the North Carolina frontier.
		When Polk was elected to national office, she became one of the most popular hostesses in Washington, D.C.Former President Martin Van Buren was the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1844.
		Shortly after his inauguration, President Polk told his secretary of the navy, George Bancroft, that the four objectives of his administration would be the reduction of tariffs, the reestablishment of an independent treasury, the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain, and the acquisition of California from Mexico.
	www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us /South/palosbday/JPolk (496 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).
		Told of his nomination in a letter, Polk penned the reply: "It has been well observed that the office of President of the United States should neither be sought nor declined.
	www.usa-presidents.info /polk.htm (553 words)

	James K. Polk
		Sarah Polk was as vivacious and sociable as Polk was quiet and solitary.
		Polk's handling of the issue in Congress contributed to the popular support given Jackson when he vetoed a bill renewing the bank's charter and began placing federal funds in state, or “pet,” banks instead of the national bank.
		Polk was able, in 1846, to revive the Independent Treasury System, and it remained the basis of American fiscal policy until replaced by the Federal Reserve System in 1913.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/James_Polk (3393 words)

	Presidents: James K. Polk
		Polk was elected to office based on a platform of expansion.
		James Polk was born on the family farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
		In 1835 Polk was elected the Speaker of the House.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/polk.html (336 words)

	James Polk
		James Polk, the son of a farmer, was born in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, on 2nd November, 1795.
		Polk was admitted to the bar in 1820 and practiced law in Nashville.
		Polk decided not to stand and the Democratic Party candidate, Lewis Cass (1,220,544), was defeated by Taylor.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USApolk.htm (1206 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)

	Today in History: November 5
		Democrats nominated dark horse candidate Polk on the ninth ballot of the Democratic National Convention after party favorite Martin Van Buren lost the bid because of his opposition to annexing Texas, a position deemed unacceptable by Southerners and by former president Andrew Jackson.
		Polk's wife, Sarah Childress Polk, lived at the residence another 42 years, often receiving visitors.
		Polk passed away in 1891, she was mourned by a nation that regarded her as a precious link to the past.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov05.html (670 words)

	James K. Polk
		James Knox Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the eldest of 10 children.
		Polk was a leader of the Jacksonian loyalists and was especially helpful to the president during the Bank War.
		James K. Polk was the last significant Jacksonian; he was able to enact many Democratic economic ideas, but failed to advance his party’s interests on the slavery question.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h157.html (391 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)

	President James Polk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in North Carolina in 1795 to Samuel Polk and Jane Knox, James Polk was studious and hard working.
		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).
		Playing on his relative obscurity, the Whig opposition sniped "Who is James K. Polk?" An experienced and eloquent orator dubbed the "Napoleon of the Stump," Polk campaigned vigorously, surprising many with his stalwart support of westward expansionâ”a hotly-debated issue dodged by other candidates.
	presidentsofusa.info /011.php (524 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 K. Polk
		Biography: 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.
		Until circumstances raised Polk's ambitions, he was a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1844.
		Polk sent an envoy to offer Mexico up to $20,000,000, plus settlement of damage claims owed to Americans, in return for California and the New Mexico country.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/glimpse/presidents/html/jp11.html (584 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)

	Booknotes
		Polk comes into office, and I think one of the reasons he didn`t dump Buchanan was because he didn`t want that same sort of image that had haunted Jackson.
		James K. Polk served as speaker of the House, and while he`s in speaker of the House, Jackson`s support at home in Tennessee begins to wane.
		And on my desk behind me now were the 12 volumes of Polk`s correspondence and the four volumes of his diary and the four biographies I mentioned -- the four volumes of the biography by Jenkins (ph), McCormick (ph), and Salley (ph), and I hear him say, he reads, "Polk, this is Polk, that`s Polk.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1763 (6966 words)

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