生于: 1795年11月2日
死于: 1849年6月15日
詹姆斯诺克斯波尔克是美国第十一任总统，也是一位受安得鲁杰克逊提拔的跟随者（其职涯都是因他人的影响而决定的），杰克逊正是田纳西州富有庄园家庭的好友。
波尔克幼年因多病无法正常到学校受教育，但却能在二十二岁时顺利以优异成绩毕业于北卡罗莱纳大学，他因为精彩的演说才能、被昵称为「残缺的拿破仑」（Napoleon of the Stump）。波尔克是个努力工作的领导者，在其总统任内成为历史上最富生产力的领袖，他大幅拓展美国疆域、重建独立的国库体系，并完成许多其他的成就。
在总统选举期间，他发誓只任一届的总统、也在1848年遵守诺言放弃再次竞选。
James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States and a protege (one whose career is helped by the influence of another) of Andrew Jackson, who was a good friend of the prosperous farming Polk family in Tennessee. Polk was too sick as a child to get formal schooling, yet managed to graduate at the top of his class from the University of North Carolina when he was 22. He was nicknamed "Napoleon of the Stump" for his excellent speaking skills. Polk was a very hard-working chief executive who proved to be one of the most productive presidents in history. He greatly expanded the U.S. territory and reestablished the independent treasury system, among many other accomplishments.
Upon election, he vowed to serve only one term, a promise he kept when he declined to run in 1848.
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