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 ...

Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, historians said.

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 ...

On August 10, 1846, the U.S. Senate passed the act organizing the Smithsonian Institution, which was signed into law by President James K. Polk. Congress authorized acceptance of the Smithson bequest ...

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.

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 ...

President Trump called Speaker Mike Johnson with a proposed deal last month: I’ll give you one of the White House’s portraits ...