James K. Polk Home | Tennessee Crossroads | Episode 2615.2

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  • Опубліковано 24 жов 2012
  • Three presidents have claimed Tennessee as home. Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson whom were both large figures on the historical stage. But, the third Tennessee president went to Washington, did what he said he would do and then came home, all without much fanfare. Tennessee Crossroads wanted to find out more about this most interesting president, and where better to start than the man's own home? Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more about James K. Polk Home.
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  • @barrysorento3572
    @barrysorento3572 6 років тому +9

    Best 1 term president ever!

  • @scottfarmer8758
    @scottfarmer8758 3 роки тому +5

    James Polk is a very underrated President. He went into office and achieved every goal he went for. He also is the President that turned the United States from a sea to shining sea country. In an era of bad Presidents between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, James Polk was definitely a diamond in the rough!

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +8

    Polk was the kind of President that many Presidents should aspire to be

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +9

    Polk is the ideal President, set out to achieve 4 goals, & once he did that, he had a "drop the mic" moment & gracefully walked off the stage. Sadly he had the shortest postpresidential retirement, lived for 3 months.

    • @bilialeilan9038
      @bilialeilan9038 4 роки тому

      You left the part out about him owning hundreds of human beings.

  • @ravenfeaster5821
    @ravenfeaster5821 4 роки тому +3

    He was born and lived for 11 years in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and that property still is there.

  • @RocketCityRocker
    @RocketCityRocker 10 років тому +8

    Respectfully, Polk was the second Tennessean President, not the third. It went 1) Andrew Jackson 1828, 2) Polk 1844, 3) Andrew Johnson 1865.

  • @grahampolk9046
    @grahampolk9046 4 роки тому +4

    He was my 5th grt grandfather.

  • @dudeinatuxedo8835
    @dudeinatuxedo8835 2 роки тому +1

    I'm actually related to James K Polk for real no joke and I live in Columbia to.

  • @CoinHound
    @CoinHound 2 роки тому

    Very interesting !!!

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +2

    Interestingly the 3 Presidents from Tennessee were born in (or near) North Carolina.

  • @leeatterberry1453
    @leeatterberry1453 2 роки тому

    👍. Polk would have known not to try to start an interference engine without the belt on it😂

  • @joeybroe1268
    @joeybroe1268 3 роки тому +1

    I am kin to Polk

  • @dinkdalton5828
    @dinkdalton5828 6 років тому

    Have big copper , bronze token JAMES POLK 1845, 1849 LARGE AS SILVER DOLLAR, BIG INSCRIP, ON REVERSE GOV TENN, SPKR OF HOUSE, ANNEXED CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, ..... GOES ON COULD YOU TELL ME ANY THING ABOUT THIS TOKEN ? THANKS.

  • @samuellocklear5566
    @samuellocklear5566 Рік тому

    I think they should put him and his wife at his house

  • @bim-ska-la-bim4433
    @bim-ska-la-bim4433 Рік тому

    Somewhat sugar-coated overview of yet another slave-owning US president - at least they told some of the horrid things he and his wife did when we visited the home.