The James K. Polk Museum isn't done pushing its efforts to have the president's remains removed from the Tennessee state Capitol and moved to Columbia. A lawyer for the museum pushed back against the ...

In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation while ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -President James K. Polk did big things for America, dramatically expanding its borders by annexing Texas and seizing California and the Southwest in a war with Mexico. Achieving ...

IN the Lenox Library of New York city may lie seen the literary relics of the late George Bancroft, which that institution purchased in 1893 from the executors of his estate, after Congress had ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee National Guard celebrated the life and legacy of former President James K. Polk in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tennessee State Capitol Nov. 2 in honor of Polk’s ...

THE great achievements of President Polk’s administration were four in number : the full establishment of the independent treasury, which divorced government dealings from the banks ; the low tariff; ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out Donald Trump gauges his esteem for presidential predecessors by how well their portraits fit into his White House redecorating scheme. Or sometimes how well the frames ...