John Bell was an American politician, attorney, and planter who was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1860.
Hand-colored lithograph of Bell by Charles Fenderich, 1841
Photograph of Bell by Mathew Brady c. 1847
Photograph of Bell by Julian Vannerson, 1859
Bell and Everett campaign poster
James K. Polk
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James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism an
John Bell (Tennessee politician)
…Republican Party and then the Whig Party, a shift that earned him the nickname "The Great Apostate". He consistently battled Jackson's allies, namely James K. Polk, over issues such as the national bank and the election spoils system. Following the death of Hugh Lawson White in 1840, Bell became the acknowledged…
Portrait, c. 1849
Reconstruction of the log cabin in Pineville, North Carolina, where Polk was born
c. 1846–49 daguerreotype of James K. Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk
The James K. Polk Home where he spent his young adult life in Columbia, Tennessee, is his only private residence still standing.