The Death of James K. Polk

After having accomplished much during his term, President Polk looked to settle down to a quite life with his wife Sarah. However this was not to be. Over exhaustion and a deadly disease would cut this vision of a peaceful retirement short.
www.jameskpolk.net/
The President James K. Polk State Historic Site is located in Pineville, NC. We are minutes from Uptown Charlotte and an easy drive from around the region via I-485.
12031 Lancaster Highway
Pineville, NC 28134
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The President James K. Polk State Historic Site is part of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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Man, this is my favorite historic site.

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Stable video👍

[@Phono-fun]

He wasn’t buried in a mass grave, it was a Cholera section for the Grundy family in city cemetery. (He did get his own plot.)

[@thepresidentjamesk.polksta7012]

Thanks for clarifying, Ben!

[@JamesKPolk-qe9lm]

Yeah, it was also a terrible retirement to be honest by just getting cholera 3 months later.

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I love you Sarah. For all eternity I love you.

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James Polk was the best President of USA in the 19th century after Abraham Lincoln.

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Before he lived in Nashville he lived in Columbia Tn

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ok

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POLK 49-53

[@joselassalle5906]

He bullied a weak neighboring country and provoked a a war of aggression with the intention of stealing territory. During the same time period he cowardly avoided a conflict with the 19th Century superpower over territorial dispute in the NW. Despicable character!

[@the4tierbridge]

Really good at getting things done though. Especially when it came to taking things from Mexico.

[@STho205]

Since when was 1840s Empire of Mexico weak militarily. The Mexican Republic had a far bigger standing army than the USA at that time with post Napoleonic generals that considered themselves far superior to the country bumpkins and militias of the US. You seem to be suffering a reverse view of nations from a 20th century state of affairs, not an early 19th. As to the situation with British North America, the US got the border parallel she insisted was fair, and the UK, still not making any money off their Canada holdings, was not going to enter another border war for an unprofitable and expensive western Canada. The US completely conquered Mexico City itself, but didn't insist on annexing Mexico. Just required by treaty that Mexico SELL THE US the northern states they really had never utilized and respect the Santa Anna surrendered to Texas border of the Rio Grande. The US could have completed that treaty a year before it did if the government of Mexico did not change 20 times in one year through internal chaos and coups. Maintaining stable republics was elusive to many nations in the 19th century including thr US, but few topped Mexico in that respect for the whole century. The fault may not lie in your stars, but in yourselves.

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U woke😂😂😂😂😂or u wanted to be like the UK?

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