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 ... To the south, Polk offered to buy California for $20 million but the Mexican government refused. Polk sent General Zachary Taylor into ...

President James K. Polk has returned to the White House as commentators find the thread of his themes in the man who brought him back -- President Donald Trump. For those who slept through history ...

Those were the days when tariff revenue fully funded the federal government (he has unrealistically ... book “A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of ...

This confluence of factors, which captured the nationalistic energy of Manifest Destiny, deeply informed how President James K. Polk and his ... the proud Mexican government to agree to a ...