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 ...

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 ... Polk was the last strong president before Lincoln, and he achieved most of the stated domestic goals of the Democratic Party, namely ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to take America ... He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and William McKinley. Both championed what many ...

in an NPR news report -- is that he now has one hanging of former president James K. Polk of Tennessee. It was perhaps done since he was president at a time when America was an expansionist nation.

Polk's family left North Carolina when he was 10 for Tennessee. "The Polks were here from 1794 to 1806," Scott Warren, the Historic Site Manager with the President James K. Polk State Historic ...

This confluence of factors, which captured the nationalistic energy of Manifest Destiny, deeply informed how President James K. Polk and his cabinet secretaries conceptualized the most important ...