perhaps this time around he should go with a portrait of a Jackson acolyte, President James K. Polk. “Young Hickory,” as he was known after he defeated a political adversary of Andrew Jackson ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

James K. Polk, the original "dark ... annexation of Texas became known, ex-president ANdrew Jackson and others threw their support behind Polk, as an expansionist candidate. His territorial ...