James K. Polk
Who was James K. Polk?
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Career Highlights
| In office March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849 | |
| Vice President | George M. Dallas |
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| Born | James Knox Polk November 2, 1795 Pineville, North Carolina |
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| Died | June 15, 1849 Nashville, Tennessee |
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| Governor of Tennessee | |
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| In office October 14, 1839 – October 15, 1841 |
| Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | |
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| In office December 7, 1835 – March 3, 1839 |
| Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee | |
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| In office March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1835 |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee | |
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| In office March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1839 |
| Political party | Democratic |
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| Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) |
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Presidents
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- James K. Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James Garfield
- Chester Arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
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