United States president James Knox Polk , three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated. Daguerrotype

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James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)

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James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism and Jacksonian democracy. S. into the Mexican–American War.
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