James K. Polk expanded the U.S. more than any other president. Now his portrait hangs in the Oval Office, a signal that ...

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is ...

The Polk painting took its place in the Oval Office ... President Donald Trump has hung a portrait of President James Knox Polk in the Oval Office. Polk, the 11th president, oversaw the largest ...

In 1844, James K. Polk became the first dark horse candidate to win the presidency, beating Henry Clay. Polk promised that he would be a one-term president. Challenges: James K. Polk was an avowed ...

I’ll give you one of the White House’s portraits of Thomas Jefferson if you give me the one of James Polk hanging in the U.S. Capitol. Johnson agreed, and a painting of the 11th president ...