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The USS James K. Polk SSBN 645 is named after the 11th President of The United States of America, James Knox Polk, who was born November 2, 1795 in Pineville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. His nickname was 'Young Hickory'. He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1823, elected to the U.S. House in 1825 and served there until 1839. While in the House, he served as Speaker from 1835 to 1839. Polk was elected Governor of Tennessee in 1839, and elected President in 1844 (Democratic Party). James K. Polk died on June 15, 1849.
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James Knox Polk was the 11th US President, was born 2 Nov 1795 in Near Pineville, Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. He was the eldest of 10 children. Polk died 15 June 1849, only a few months after leaving office.
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James Knox Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to be President and was the last strong president until the Civil War. He was born in North Carolina in 1795. He graduated from the Universityof North Carolina with honors in 1818.
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Born on November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Caroline to an influential, somewhat wealthy family, Polk was the son of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. His mother was a descendant of Scottish religious reformer John Knox. When he was 11 years old his family moved to what is now Maury County, Tennessee. As a student, Polk was extremely studious and industrious. In 1818, he graduated from the University of North Carolina with honors. For two years, he studied law in Nashville, Tennessee and was admitted to the bar in 1820.
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Two states shared the youth and education of James Knox Polk, 11th president of the United States of America. He was born in North Carolina in 1795 in the afterglow of the American Revolution and as a lad moved with his family to larger lands in Tennessee. He was weak and sickly in his early years but gained strength in his teens. Following undergraduate study at the University of North Carolina, he read law under Tennessee's most prestigious attorney, Judge Felix Grundy of Nashville. It was in Nashville that Polk met Andrew Jackson and began a lasting and rewarding friendship. They came to be called "Old Hickory and Young Hickory."
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Polk was born on a farm in Mecklenburg county, N. C., on Nov. 2, 1795, the oldest of the ten children of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. The Polks had moved from Pennsylvania a generation earlier, among the first pioneer settlers in that part of North Carolina. James' great-uncle Thomas Polk was the most prominent leader in the community. His maternal grandfather, James Knox, was a farmer and blacksmith who had distinguished himself in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.
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