Correspondents include Robert John Walker, Thomas Ritchie, and others.
Polk contain political correspondence, notes, and other papers. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. chief clerk of the state senate 1821-1823 member of the state house of representatives 1823-1825 elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-fourth Congresses and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1839) chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-third Congress) Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses) did not seek renomination in 1838 having become a candidate for governor governor of Tennessee 1839-1841 elected as a Democrat as President of the United States in 1844 inaugurated on March 4, 1845, and served until Madeclined to be a candidate for renomination died in Nashville, Tenn., Jinterment within the grounds of the state capitol. POLK, James Knox, (brother of William Hawkins Polk), a Representative from Tennessee and 11th President of the United States born near Little Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, N.C., Novemmoved to Tennessee in 1806 with his parents, who settled in what later became Maury County attended the common schools and was tutored privately graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1818 studied law admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Columbia, Tenn.
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