1844 Baltimore newspaper JAMES POLK ELECTED PRESIDENT ofThe US-definitive result

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1844 Baltimore newspaper JAMES POLK ELECTED PRESIDENT ofThe US-definitive result:
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Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,the Baltimore American & Commercial Daily Advertiser (MD) dated Nov 15, 1844.

This newspaper contains a prominent inside page chart of the KNOWN CERTAIN electoral votes from the states for the election of 1844, showing that JAMES KNOX POLK has ben elected President of the US.

Polk is shown to haveat least 146 sure electoral votes when 138 electoral votes were required to win the Presidency. Whig candidate Henry Clay lost again (for the third and last time).

The United States presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 1, to Wednesday, December 4, 1844. Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy.

Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran on a platform that embraced American territorial expansionism, an idea soon to be referred to as Manifest Destiny. At their convention, the Democrats called for the annexation of Texas and asserted that the United States had a \"clear and unquestionable\" claim to \"the whole\" of Oregon. By informally tying the Oregon boundary dispute to the more controversial Texas debate, the Democrats appealed to both Northern expansionists (who were more adamant about the Oregon boundary) and Southern expansionists (who were more focused on annexing Texas as a slave state). Although Polk\'s victory is attributed generally to Clay\'s decision to take a stand against territorial expansion, economic issues were also of importance.

This was the last presidential election to be held on different days in different states. Starting with the presidential election of 1848, all states held the election on the same date in November. It is also the only presidential election in which the winner, Polk, lost both his birth state (North Carolina) and his state of residence (Tennessee).

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