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James K. Polk

1795 - 1849

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James Knox Polk (; November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839 and the ninth governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841. A protégé of Andrew Jackson, he was a member of the Democratic Party and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James K. Polk has received more than 8,108,669 page views. His biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 124 in 2019). James K. Polk is the 55th most popular politician (up from 66th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from United States (up from 21st in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Politician.

James K. Polk was the 11th president of the United States. He is most famous for annexing Texas, Oregon, and California to the United States.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James K. Polk ranks 55 out of 19,576. Before him are Nero, Justinian I, Josip Broz Tito, Akhenaten, William IV of the United Kingdom, and Peter the Great. After him are Sargon of Akkad, Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal, Joe Biden, Marcus Aurelius, and Queen Victoria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, James K. Polk ranks 1. After him are Frederick William IV of Prussia, Leopold von Ranke, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. Among people deceased in 1849, James K. Polk ranks 3. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, and Edgar Allan Poe. After him are Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, France Prešeren, Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James K. Polk ranks 20 out of 20,380. Before him are Abraham Lincoln (1809), Hillary Clinton (1947), Andrew Johnson (1808), Martin Van Buren (1782), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), and Martin Scorsese (1942). After him are Malcolm X (1925), Bruce Lee (1940), Joe Biden (1942), Grace Kelly (1929), Franklin Pierce (1804), and Elvis Presley (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James K. Polk ranks 11. Before him are Andrew Jackson (1767), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Hillary Clinton (1947), Andrew Johnson (1808), Martin Van Buren (1782), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822). After him are Joe Biden (1942), Franklin Pierce (1804), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), John F. Kennedy (1917), Benjamin Franklin (1706), and Ronald Reagan (1911).

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