President James K. Polk http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/nov-polk.htm

James K. Polk 1795-1849 http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/changing/mexican-war/gallery/02/contentc.asp

First Lady Sarah Childress Polk http://www.tnportraits.org/polk-sarah-childress-healy.htm

Sarah Childress Polk 1803-1891 http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs_pph/PresidentDetail.aspx?ID=11&imageID=3289

Vice President George M. Dallas 1845-1849 http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/image/Sculpture_22_00011.htm

Secretary of State James Buchanan 1845-1849 http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/40888.htm

James K. Polk http://www.jameskpolk.com/bio.html

James K. Polk http://www.philaprintshop.com/presid2.html

The Oregon territory in 1844. Both the US and Britain claimed the entire territory http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mexican-war-maps.htm

Presidential election 1844 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohmercer/maps.html

Election celebration poster - Texas coming in. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_polk_2_e.html

1844 Polk elected. Presidential Candidate former Secretary of State and former Speaker Henry Clay had 105 votes vs 170 with running mate Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Frelinghuysen

Supreme Court Justice Levi Woodbury 1845-1851 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeviWoodbury.png

December 29, 1845 Texas Statehood http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/index.html

Speaker of the House John Wesley Davis 1845-1847 from Indiana. Commissioner to China 1848-1851 Governor of Oregon Territory 1853-1854 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000120

The Oregon treaty gave the US the area below the 49th parallel except for Vancouver http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/James_K._Polk

President James Polk and Sarah Polk http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/usmexwar/bios/bio_06.html

First Lady Sarah Childress Polk http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_polk_3_e.html

Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier 1846-1870 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cooper_Grier

December 28, 1846 Iowa Statehood http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/us/A0858887.html

Speaker of the House Robert Charles Winthrop 1847-1849 Senator from Mass. 1850-1851. His great great grandson is Senator John Kerry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Winthrop

James Polk set the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 http://dc.metblogs.com/archives/2006/02/a_brief_history_1.phtml

The Mexican Cession (in red) was acquired through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Gadsden Purchase (in yellow) was acquired through purchase after Polk left office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo.png

May 29, 1848 Wisconsin Statehood http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0861981.html

James Polk died on June 15, 1849 of cholera three months after his presidential term ended. His grave is in Nashville http://www.jimpoz.com/gallery/cemetery?page=3

James Polk's home from 1816 to 1824 was built by his father. http://www.jameskpolk.com/new/polkhome.asp

James K. Polk's tomb lies on the grounds of the state capitol in Nashville, Tennessee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Polk