As Biden deliberates on his own plans for 2024, it’s worth revisiting the story of James K. Polk, a man who was underestimated at every turn
It was never James K. Polk’s intention to run for president. A former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Polk had served a single two-year term as governor of Tennessee — then a largely ceremonial and toothless role — but lost both his reelection race and a subsequent comeback bid. Effectively, his political aspirations had stalled out.
As President Joe Biden deliberates on his own plans for 2024, it’s worth revisiting the story of James K. Polk, a man who was underestimated at every turn, achieved remarkable success during his time in office and became the first president to drop the mic after just four years. A political cartoon in 1846 invokes the specter of Democratic president Andrew Jackson as the inspiration for what the artist considers Polk's rash and autocratic handling of the "Oregon Question" with Great Britain. | Library of Congress
Not long after the ink was dry on the Oregon treaty, Polk sent the Army to Texas, to enforce a congressional resolution admitting the republic into the United States. Polk, who campaigned on Texas statehood and privately aimed to annex California, would soon accomplish far more than that. The U.S.
On one hand, Polk’s presidency left an enduring influence. It’s impossible to imagine an alternate reality in which the map of the United States stood frozen in 1844. At the same time, his territorial conquests led in no small way to the Civil War.
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