This weekend's events include a downtown Polk Family walking tour, Family Center's 30th anniversary celebration, Tulip Fest ...

Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is ...

The Journal said that Trump has told White House visitors that he admires Polk, known for his championing of America’s “manifest destiny,” the belief that it was America’s God-given right to expand ...

In 1844, James K. Polk became the first dark horse candidate to win the presidency, beating Henry Clay. Polk promised that he would be a one-term president. Challenges: James K. Polk was an avowed ...

James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate ... Died: June 15, 1849. Polk was the last strong president before Lincoln, and he achieved most of the stated domestic goals of the Democratic ...

James K. Polk expanded the U.S. more than any other president. Now his portrait hangs in the Oval Office, a signal that President Trump’s ambition to take over Canada, Greenland and other ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...