Authors: James K. Polk

1825–1860

Veto Message on Rivers and Harbors Bill

Source: James K. Polk, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201084. I have considered the bill entitled “An act making appropriations for the improvement

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Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations

President James K. Polk, War Message, May 11, 1846 Congressional Globe, 29thCongress, 1st session, 783–84, available at https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=016/llcg016.db&recNum=829. The existing state of the relations between the United States and Mexico

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1848)

Source: James K. Polk, Fourth Annual Message, online, by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200618. . . . The great results which have been developed

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1825–1860

Inaugural Address (1845)

James K. Polk, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200580 Fellow-Citizens: WITHOUT solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the

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