Referred to as the “dark horse,” James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States of America. Known to be the president who pursued the “Manifest Dynasty,” that made him one of the bravest presidents ever led the country. On November 2, 1795, he was born in Mecklenburg County, North … Read more
James K Polk, at the age of 49, was inaugurated as the 11th president of the United States of America. He ran under the Democratic political party and considered the first “dark horse” presidential candidate for the Democratic Party because no one thought he had the chance to become the party’s candidate, … Read more
James Knox Polk is a Jacksonian Democrat is considered a strong president, preceding the American Civil War, born on November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to Jane Knox and Samuel Polk. James was the eldest among their ten children. He had four sisters and five brothers. He grew up with … Read more
James Knox Polk served as the eleventh president of the United States of America and displayed characteristics that many admired. Remembered as a short, thin, angular man with brushed back hair, James Polk was the man who made the “Manifest Destiny,” wherein the United States was believed to expand from the Atlantic … Read more
On November 2, 1795, James Polk was born in Pineville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to a farmer family. He was the first of ten children of Jane and Samuel Polk and named after his maternal grandfather, James Knox. James Polk suffered frail health as a child. In one account, his father took … Read more