Three decades later, Eugene Irving McCormac recounted it in his 1922 James K. Polk: A Political Biography-- the first full-fledged study, drawing on primary sources, of the Polk presidency.

On this day in 1844, James K. Polk, the Democratic candidate, emerged as the victor over Henry Clay, the Whig candidate, to become the nation’s 11th president. Polk won 49.5 percent of the ...

“From sea to shining sea” may very well have served as the professional motto of James K. Polk, our 11th president. Although he served only one term, he was one ...

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 ...