Today I’m going to tackle about an American political figure and in my own view for this president, he is one of the least known president in US history. But he gained a reputation for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War. He is James Knox Polk the 11th president of the most powerful country in the world. He was born around 1795 and graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina. Leaving his law practice behind, he served in the Tennessee legislature, where he became friends with Andrew Jackson the 7th president. Polk moved from the Tennessee legislature to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1839 (and serving as speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839). He left his congressional post to become governor of Tennessee.
James Polk took office on March 4, 1845—and, at 49 years of age, he became the youngest president in American history. Before Polk took the oath of office, Congress offered annexation to Texas, and when they accepted and became a new state, Mexico severed diplomatic relations with the United States and tensions between the two countries escalated. He continued serving as president until March 4, 1849. Since that time Pres. Polk’s health deteriorated he began to lose a lot of weight, due to a suspected cholera contraction during his good will visit in New Orleans. Because of that he died on June 15, 1849 exactly 166 years ago today.
Polk had the shortest retirement of all Presidents at 103 days. He was the youngest former president to die in retirement at the age of 53. Along with George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon B. Johnson, he is one of six presidents to have died while his direct successor was in office.
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