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'''James Knox Polk''' was the 11th [[president]] of the [[United States]]. He was elected in 1844 as a Democrat and served as president from 1845-1849.
Polk was an early pioneer of the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventive war, launching an invasion of [[Mexico]] to prevent an imminent Mexican attack on [[Texas]]. Unfortunately, Polk was unable to prevent several thousand Mexicans from entering the country and gaining citizenship when the United States annexed [[California]] and [[New Mexico]]. Polk has also been criticized for accepting a compromise settlement with [[England]] over the [[Oregon]] Country instead of pursuing a preventive war with [[Canada]] in order to gain all of it.
Polk was an early pioneer of the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventive war, launching an invasion of [[Mexico]] to prevent an immenent Mexican attack on [[Texas]]. Unfortunately, Polk was unable to prevent several thousand Mexicans from entering the country when the United States annexed Texas, [[California]] and [[New Mexico]].
Polk declined to run for a second term.
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