James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States of America. Polk was born on November 2, 1795, near Pineville, North Carolina. Before he served as President from 1845 until March of 1849. James Polk had practiced law. At age 30 he won an election to congress in 1825. After resigning from Congress, in 1839 , Polk ran for governor of Tennessee. After that Polk finally became president. He was a hard working individual, that is why he was so successful during term as U.S president. Polk is most well known for the fact that he is the only President to have planed out a set of goals in his first term and leave office having accomplished them. Polk had set out four major goals: reduce tariffs, have an independent U.S. Treasury, secure …show more content…
Instead of you getting taxed for the quantity of the item, Polk decided to change it to being taxed for the quality instead. Polk set forth a plan to lower the tariff and establish the Independent Treasury. With the assistance of his Secretary of the Treasury, Robert J. Walker. The president and other congressional leaders established a new tariff bill in 1846, known as the Walker Tariff of 1846. When things got rough, Polk intervened directly and pressured members of Congress. Therefore, in July, they finally agreed to the bill the president had brought up. The other part of Polk’s program to have a Independent Treasury, also know as Independent Treasury Act of 1846, was designed to end the deposit of federal revenues in certain selected banks. Instead the president wanted to place all such money in special government vaults. After slowly considering the president’s proposal in the busy spring of 1846, Congress finally agreed to pass it in June. Thus by mid-summer Polk had succeeded at both plans for his economic program; “But no matter how you score your presidents on “greatness”, Polk is almost universally hailed for having been an effective president ” (Borneman, …show more content…
Polk just after his first term as president in March 4, 1849. Polk had retired. This was his intention before he even became president. Just as he promised he retired at the end of his single term, although he could easily have been nominated for a second term. He wrote in his diary that he felt "exceedingly relieved" to be free from public duty. Unfortunately, he was able to enjoy less than three months of retirement. That is the the least of any former President. James Polk; “ literally worked him self to death in the White House, and though, Unlike most presidents, he achieved just about all of his goals, his cold, formal, suspicious, and humorless nature made it impossible for people to warm up to him” (Boller 45). This could also be the reason for his success, he was only focused on the improvement and success of his nation. While writing this research paper not only do i know more about James K. Polk, but i also know how important his role was for the Unites states of America. His Democratic approach made him one of the great presidents in