NOUN
- 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
How To Use President Polk In A Sentence
- Lincoln did it when, as a congressman from Illinois, he excoriated President Polk for his war in Mexico.
- President Polk, in assenting to this arrangement in 1846, threw the responsibility upon the The Relations Between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, from the Treaty of Ghent until the Inauguration of President Lincoln
- President Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to take an army into the disputed region, and in April 1846, one of Taylor's patrols was attacked by Mexican troops.
- As a staunch conservative Whig he especially loathed President Polk aliberalDemocrot, but he also despised General ZacharyTaylor, another Democrat who acted as if he too hoped to be the next president. ffis ultimate scorn, however, was reserved for Gideon J. Pillow, a pettifog - ging lawyer from a small. town in Tennessee, who was so ineffectual that Clay could not understand why Scott even bothered with him. Mexico
- President Polk during his presidency lusted for more land than the country had ever before controlled.
