ExclusiveJames K. Polk: Young Hickory

Often referred to as the one bright spot between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, James K. Polk was the eleventh president of the United States. As one of Jackson’s proteges, Polk was a dark horse Democratic candidate who distinguished himself in his single term of office by fulfilling all his campaign promises. Polk was an ardent believer in “Manifest Destiny,” the popular 19th-century notion that the United States’s was destined to extend the American dream throughout North America, so his presidential policies focused on extending the nation’s borders to the Pacific Coast.

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