Sunday, August 21, 2011

James K. Polk

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Brother James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States, Columbia Lodge 31, Columbia, Tennessee, left office on March 4, 1849 and died June 15, 1849, just 103 days later.  He had the shortest retirement of any US President and was also the youngest President to die in retirement.

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