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Hace 5 días · In the 1844 United States presidential election, Democrat James K. Polk was elected on a platform of expanding U.S. territory to Oregon, California (also a Mexican territory), and Texas by any means, with the 1845 annexation of Texas furthering that goal.
- April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848, (1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Hace 5 días · James K. Polk The convention of 1844 brought the first heavily contested Democratic presidential nomination. Van Buren’s opposition to the annexation of Texas cost him votes among Southern Democrats, but his main rival, Lewis Cass , was also unable to gain support from two-thirds of the delegates.
Hace 2 días · June 15 – James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (born 1795) July 30 – Jacob Perkins , inventor, mechanical engineer, and physicist (born 1766 ) August 23 – Edward Hicks , folk painter and Quaker preacher (born 1780 )
Hace 1 día · James K. Polk: 10th Vice President of the United States; In office March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841: President: William Henry Harrison: Preceded by: Richard Mentor Johnson: Succeeded by: George M. Dallas: United States Senator from Virginia; In office March 4, 1827 – February 29, 1836: Preceded by: John Randolph: Succeeded by: William Cabell Rives
Hace 2 días · James K. Polk – Methodist. Polk came from a Presbyterian upbringing but was not baptized as a child, due to a dispute with the local Presbyterian minister in rural North Carolina. Polk's father and grandfather were Deists, and the minister refused to baptize James unless his father affirmed Christianity, which he would not do.
Hace 2 días · James K. Polk: Democratic: 17 (6.30) 19 (5.41) 18 (6.06) 26 (4.36) 23 (4.75) 22 (5.38) 12 Zachary Taylor: Whig: 34 (3.66) 35 (3.61) 34 (3.51) 30 (4.12) 33 (3.29) 33 (3.64) 13 Millard Fillmore: Whig: 40 (2.80) 38 (3.10) 38 (3.00) 36 (2.86) 36 (2.78) 39 (2.91) 14 Franklin Pierce: Democratic: 39 (2.84) 40 (2.58) 40 (2.92) 37 (2.74) 40 ...
Hace 17 horas · The president favored James K. Polk for the post, but when members of his "Kitchen Cabinet" went to Capitol Hill and lobbied on Polk's behalf, they were rebuffed. Perceived as an encroachment upon a constitutional prerogative of the House, the effort to influence the vote splintered Jacksonian party unity and energized the opposition.
