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 ...

From sea to shining sea” may very well have served as the professional motto of James K. Polk, our 11th president. Although ...

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 ...

The James K. Polk Ancestral Home displays original items from his years in Tennessee and Washington, D.C., including furniture, paintings, and White House china. Mr. Holtzapple responded to ...

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 ...