Chef Staib prepares Fried Chicken and Chess Pie in President Polk’s kitchen. Chef Walter Staib demystifies the "Dark Horse," James K. Polk, known as "the most important President that you know ...

Despite serving as speaker of the House of Representatives and governor of Tennessee, James Polk was considered a “dark horse” candidate when he won the election of 1844. When the new ...

He didn’t seek the nomination, but he gladly accepted it. An 1844 campaign poster for James K. Polk: America's first dark horse presidential candidate. | Library of Congress “Who’s Polk?” ...

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 ...

James K. Polk may have served just one ... Cass—they eventually decided to compromise by picking a “dark horse” candidate: Polk. 4. Everyone thought James K. Polk would lose his bid for ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Young Hickory” - James K ... The original Dark Horse President soon went to work. Shortly before Polk took the reins, Congress passed a resolution ...

On this day in 1844, James K. Polk ... in the Electoral College, 107-105. Polk had won his party’s nomination on the ninth ballot as the first “dark horse” candidate in political annals.

In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United ... In 1844, the Democrats nominated Polk as a dark horse candidate for president on the ninth ballot.

In 1844, the term “dark horse” was used for the first time ... nobody was talking about James K. Polk. He had been out of office for five years — a period long enough to create total amnesia ...

Born: November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina... James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate, laid out his foreign policy and domestic aims early, achieved them in one term ...