Ruler · 1795 – 1849

James K. Polk

Lived 1795 – 1849; statesperson, politician. President of the United States (United States), 1845 – 1849.

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Lived: 1795 – 1849; 54 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; United States
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of the United States

United States · the 12th of 48 dated reigns · 1789 – 2025

8 before

Quentin Trembley1837 – …

William Henry Harrison1841

John Tyler1841 – 1845

James K. Polk1845 – 1849

Zachary Taylor1849 – 1850

Millard Fillmore1850 – 1853

Franklin Pierce1853 – 1857

33 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1845 – 1849 · 4 years · came to it aged 50

Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; cholera

the article also: resigned

True to his campaign pledge to serve one term (one of the few U.S. presidents to make and keep such a pledge), Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee, where he died of cholera soon afterward.

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