James Knox Polk
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| Order: | Eleventh President
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| Term of Office: | March 4, 1845– March 3, 1849
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| Preceded by: | John Tyler
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| Succeeded by: | Zachary Taylor
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| Date of Birth | November 2, 1795
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| Place of Birth: | Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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| Date of Death: | June 15, 1849
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| Place of Death: | Nashville, Tennessee
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| First Lady: | Sarah Childress Polk
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| Occupation: | Lawyer
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| Political partyThe United States has what is for all practical purposes a two-party system, with the two largest political parties dividing a great majority of the vote between themselves in most elections. This is partly a consequence of the first-past-the-post electio: | Democratic Partylogo depicts a stylized donkey in red, white, and blue. The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. The Party is currently the minority in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as w
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| Vice PresidentThe Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new Presi: | George M. DallasGeorge Mifflin Dallas ( July 10, 1792— December 31, 1864) was a U. Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President, serving under James K. Dallas was born in Philadelphia, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) i
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| Nicknames: | "Young Hickory," "Napoleon of the Stump"
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