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James K Polk was born on November 2nd, 1795 in Nashville, Tennessee. -
Him and his family moved to Tennessee. -
Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed surgery on Polk to remove urinary stones. -
Graduated for University of North Carolina. He studied law, mathematics, and classics. -
He was a Tennessee lawyer after college. -
He became the State Senate of Tennessee. -
He joined his local Militia. -
He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives. -
He got married to Sarah Childress. Which was his only wife. They had no kids too. -
He was appointed to the House Ways and Means Committee. -
He became the speaker of the United States House of Representatives -
He became the Governor of Tennessee from 1839-1841. -
Announced his support of the annexation of Texas by the United States. Nominated on May 29 as the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. -
He became the 11th president on March 4. Given nickname “Young Hickory”. He also pledged to serve only one term.
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Polk sends to Senate an extradition treaty with Prussia signed. -
Texas became a State. -
Submitted war message to Congress. -
Oregon Treaty Signed between United States and Britain. Established 49th parallel. -
Iowa admitted as 29th state. -
Mexico City captured. -
Declaration of the Rights of Women at Seneca Falls, NY. -
Fourth State of the Union Message to Congress and confirmed discovery of gold in California that triggers Gold Rush. -
Signed bill creating the Department of the Interior
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His trip took him from the Atlantic seaboard, west along the Gulf states, and up the Mississippi River to Tennessee.
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At the end of the trip, he moved into his recently purchased house in Nashville and he called it the Polk Place. He spent his final weeks there remodeling the house and sorting through his presidential papers. -
Seriously ill during the last days of his trip possibly from cholera that had broken out in New Orleans while he was there so he cut his trip short because of cholera. -
Died in Nashville, Tennessee after the shortest presidential retirement in American history. -
Polk left most of his house to his wife with the request that she free their slaves upon her death.
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He was transferred to tomb at Polk Place
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James K. Polk and Sarah C. Polk transferred to the grounds of the Tennessee state capitol in Nashville and are now resting peacefully.