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Polk, James Knox

Source:
A Dictionary of World History
Author(s):
Edmund WrightEdmund Wright

Polk, James Knox 

(1795–1849)

US Democratic statesman, 11th President of the USA (1845–49). His term of office resulted in major territorial additions to the USA: Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845, and the successful outcome of the conflict with Mexico resulted in the annexation of California and the south-west two years later.