(Encyclopedia) Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792–1864, American statesman, vice president of the United States (1845–49), b. Philadelphia; son of Alexander James Dallas. He read law, was admitted (1813)…
LATTA James Polk , a Representative from Nebraska;
born near Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, October 31, 1844;
moved with his parents to Jackson County, Iowa, in 1846;
attended the district…
POLK James Gould , a Representative from Ohio;
born on a farm in Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1896;
attended elementary school in Highland, Ohio;
graduated from New Vienna (…
(Encyclopedia) Liberty party, in U.S. history, an antislavery political organization founded in 1840. It was formed by those abolitionists, under the leadership of James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith,…
HALL James Knox Polk , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Milesburg, Center
County, Pa., September 30, 1844; educated in Pittsburgh, Pa.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar November 8,…
James Polk (December 7, 1847) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The annual meeting of Congress is always an interesting event. The representatives of the States and…
James Polk (December 8, 1846) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In resuming your labors in the service of the people it is a subject of congratulation that there has…
James Polk (December 2, 1845) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: It is to me a source of unaffected satisfaction to meet the representatives of the States and the…
(Encyclopedia) Nashville, city (1990 pop. 487,969), state capital, coextensive with Davidson co., central Tenn., on the Cumberland River, in a fertile farm area; inc. as a city 1806, merged with…
