President James K. Polk, at the end of a year of fantastical rumors of riches in the Sierra Nevada, ignited the California Gold Rush with his State of the Union address on this day in history ...

One of James K. Polk’s last major acts as president was also one of his most consequential: He helped set off the California Gold Rush. Polk’s deed came during his final State of the Union in ...

It was never James K. Polk’s intention to run for president ... Polk now signaled his intent to take California away from Mexico, as well. He would lower the tariff, which the previous ...

James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate ... His attempt to acquire California and New Mexico from the south provoked the Mexican War... Died: June 15, 1849. Polk was the last strong ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Young Hickory” - James K. Polk. Prior to becoming ... they were heating up in the South. Polk, seeking to gain California, offered Mexico $20,000,000.

Polk promised that he would be a one-term president. Challenges: James K. Polk was an avowed expansionist, committed to acquiring California and New Mexico from Mexico even at the risk of war. Polk ...

And it wasn’t until former President James K. Polk spoke of “accounts of the abundance of gold” in his December State of the ...

President James K. Polk. “Young Hickory,” as he was known after he defeated a political adversary of Andrew Jackson in a Tennessee congressional race, lacked the charisma or eloquence of other ...

James K. Polk’s final night as president of the United States was an all-nighter. "The 11th President had spent the previous evening with Congress trying to pass some final appropriation bills ...

James K. Polk expanded the U.S. more than any other president. Now his portrait hangs in the Oval Office, a signal that President Trump’s ambition to take over Canada, Greenland and other ...