U.S. President James K. Polk born in Pineville, North Carolina 220 years ago today (Nov 2 1795)


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(Monday, November 2, 1795)James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849), was born today in a farmhouse (possibly a log cabin) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.