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James K. Polk Is Elected 11th President of the United States

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James K. Polk--11th president of the United States

President James K. Polk was not expected to win the election

CREDIT: Currier & Ives, publishers. "James K. Polk -- Eleventh President of the United States." N. Currier, between 1845 and 1860, New York. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.



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