James K Polk 
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SOURCE: NYT
3-24-17
A President’s Restless Corpse May Be on the Move Again in Tennessee
James K. Polk’s body has been buried in three places. Lawmakers are now considering moving it again, to the site of a Polk family home and museum in Columbia, Tenn.
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3-12-17
You Think History’s Predictable? Consider This.
by Ronald L. Feinman
Ten times in American history death could well have altered the course of events.
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10-18-15
This Is How Wild Politics Used to Be
by Greg Bailey
A story from the time of Abe Lincoln that makes our current vim and vigor look almost pale by comparison.
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SOURCE: The Nation
8-3-15
Jeb Bush Admires a Really Lousy President — And It’s Not His Brother
by John Nichols
James K. Polk was condemned by John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln on issues of human bondage and lawless militarism.
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SOURCE: The Des Moines Register
7-13-15
Jeb Bush’s favorite president is ... James K. Polk?
“He said what he was going to do and he did what he said he was going to do, and then he left,” Bush said.
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