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James K. Polk

11th president of the United States

1795 - 1849

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His biography is available in 129 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 127 in 2024). James K. Polk is the 58th most popular politician (down from 54th in 2024), the 21st most popular biography from United States (down from 20th in 2019) and the 10th 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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James K. Polk ranks #21 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 1% of that group.

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James K. Polk's biography appears in 129 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Politicians.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, James K. Polk ranks 58 out of 20,022. Before him are Richard III of England, Cnut the Great, Xerxes I, Nicholas II of Russia, Henry Kissinger, and Abraham Lincoln. After him are William III of England, James II of England, Pompey, Darius the Great, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Kim Jong-il.

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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, John Keats, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Rowland Hill, Gabriel Lamé, and Antonio José de Sucre. 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, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, 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 21 out of 23,232. Before him are Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Martin Van Buren (1782), Steve Jobs (1955), Hillary Clinton (1947), Marilyn Monroe (1926), and Abraham Lincoln (1809). After him are Steven Spielberg (1946), Elvis Presley (1935), T. S. Eliot (1888), Grace Kelly (1929), Malcolm X (1925), and Ronald Reagan (1911).

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Among Politicians In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James K. Polk ranks 10. Before him are Andrew Jackson (1767), William McKinley (1843), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Martin Van Buren (1782), Hillary Clinton (1947), and Abraham Lincoln (1809). After him are Ronald Reagan (1911), George Washington (1732), John F. Kennedy (1917), Joe Biden (1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), and Benjamin Franklin (1706).

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