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Meet Amazing Americans U.S. Presidents James Polk

The First "Dark Horse" Presidential Candidate

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Portrait of Henry Clay

Henry Clay ran against Polk for president and lost.

CREDIT: Henry Clay, 18??. University of Chicago. Library. American Historical Portraits, William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Not in Library of Congress collections.



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