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Joshua Whyte
November 3,2022
James Knox Polk
-Nickname:''Dark horse''
-Sarah Childress Polk was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
-Nickname:Dark Horse( -
-No children,beleived poltics was family
-Polk came from a large family in North Carolina. He had five brothers and 4 sisters.
-James served from (1845-1849). So 4 Years = 1 term
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11th President
George M. Dallas(Vice President)
Religion: Presbyterian(Presbyterian theology basically means the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ.
Occupations before President:
- First Job:clerk for the Tennessee state senate
Later on as a young lawyer he entered politics, served in the Tennessee legislature, and became a friend of Andrew Jackson.
Salary of James Polk: $700,000 estimated with inflation
College:Graduated from the University of North Carolina (1818)
Major:Law
Birthday: November 2, 1795
Died:June 15, 1849
Home State:North Carolina
Outside activites: embarked on an extensive tour of the southern states.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-established the Department of the Interior
- (Polk accomplished pretty much everything that he said he wanted to accomplish as President and everything he had promised in his party's platform)
-Acquisition of the Oregon Territory,California, and the Territory of New Mexico
-the positive settlement of the Texas border dispute; lower tariff rates; the establishment of a new federal depository system; and the strengthening of the executive office
Something surprising?
Something that surprised me was that Polk was known as a “workaholic,” and some historians believe that working too hard contributed to his early death.
Ideology
Believed in manifest destiny–the belief that the United States was fated to expand across the North American continent
Huge beleiver in expansion and getting califorina
The manifest destiny was also one of his reasons for becoming president
If I was in this time period I wouldnt be able to vote because I'D be a slave. If I was free I would not have voted for Polk as he supported slavery.
-Probably the biggest controversies during the Presidency of Polk was Polk began the war with mexico on questionable grounds.
The first was on whether on not Polk could send the Army to Mexico in the first place, or whether he needed Congressional approval to do so. The next issue would be if the army that Polk sent had proper cause to enter Mexico once they were there.
It's speculated that the strain of war effots lead to Polk's death
The Legacy