That ended with James K. Polk, who was president from 1845 to 1849. President Andrew Johnson resurrected the tradition in 1865, holding a two-day “Grand Review of the Armies” five weeks after ...

As president, one of John Tyler’s biggest accomplishments was pursuing the annexation of Texas, which officially joined the Union in 1845 under President James K. Polk.

But he fell out with the Whig Party, who chose not to nominate him for reelection, instead opting for Henry Clay, who lost to the Democrat James K. Polk.

Results from the Heart of Texas Regional History Fair held Feb. 11-12 at Baylor University. Winners are listed by name of student(s), title of project, school and teacher(s).

The question of formal and sanctioned western expansion became acute with the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas and its contested territorial claims in December of 1845. While Texas itself ...

James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist platform: acquire California and other land in the Southwest, annex the then-independent Republic of Texas and settle a dispute ...

James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849. (National Archives/Getty Images | Hulton Archive) The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O’Sullivan ...

James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist platform: acquire California and other land in the Southwest, annex the then-independent Republic of Texas and settle a ...

1867 The first serious attempt to acquire Greenland was the brainchild of Robert J. Walker, the former treasury secretary under President James K. Polk and an avowed American expansionist.