James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the Ohio Whig's thunderous

when the Ohio Whig's thunderous Senate speech against the Mexican War had made him either prophet or pariax

rendered long after his pistol duel at Weehawken

the unwelcome grammar of a republic learning to speak in millions

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap when the Ohio Whig's thunderousJames Knox Polk President of the United States 1845. The dark eyed Tennessean rendered in the year of his inauguration, jaw set for a single term of acquisition Texas annexed, Oregon negotiated, war with Mexico already gathering on the horizon. A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional