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#JamesKnoxPolk was born #OnThisDay in 1795; elected in 1844, Polk vastly expanded the US through the #MexicanWar — which Abraham Lincoln considered immoral — the greatest expansion of US territory in American #history after the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson:
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James Polk

#JamesKnoxPolk was born #OnThisDay in 1795 & elected president in 1844; he used the #MexicanWar to acquire the Southwest & Mexicans entering the Southwest are really just migrating to what was the northern part of Mexico before 1848... #ManifestDestiny

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