Joseph Meek
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Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the f
Joseph L. Meek
Meek as a young man
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
Joseph Meek
…trip, arriving in Saint Joseph, Missouri on May 4 and proceeding to Washington by steamboat and rail. While in Washington, where he met with President James K. Polk (whose wife Sarah Childress Polk, was Meek's cousin), he argued forcefully for making the Oregon Country a federal territory. The following spring…
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.