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James K. Polk
President of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1795–1849)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 November 1795
- Died
- 15 June 1849
- Place of birth
- Pineville
- Place of death
- Nashville
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Polk
- Father
- Samuel Polk
- Mother
- Jane Knox
- Spouse
- Sarah Childress Polk
- Sibling
- William Hawkins Polk, Jane Maria Polk, Franklin Ezekiel Polk, John Lee Polk, Ophelia Clarissa Polk, Samuel Wilson Polk, Marshall Tate Polk, Naomi Tate Polk, Lydia Eliza Polk
- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, statesperson, planter class, governor, jurist
- Position held
- President of the United States, United States representative, Governor of Tennessee, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, United States representative, President-elect of the United States, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, president
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Methodism
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
- birth name
- James Knox Polk
- candidacy in election
- 1844 United States presidential election
- cause of death
- cholera
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, New International Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work
- educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- height
- 173 cm
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Democratic Party
- name in native language
- James K. Polk
- number of children
- 0
- place of burial
- Tennessee State Capitol
- pseudonym
- Young Hickory
- social classification
- slave owner
- topic has template
- Template:James K. Polk
- topic's main category
- Category:James K. Polk
- work location
- Washington, D.C.
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Appears in
Subject of
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Polk, James Knox
- The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Polk, James Knox
- The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Polk, James Knox
- Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Polk, James Knox
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Polk, James Knox
- The New Student's Reference Work/Polk, James Knox
- The New International Encyclopædia/Polk, James Knox
- James Knox Polk
- James K. Polk
- James Knox Polk (1795–1849)
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