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POLK, JAMES KNOX, President. Signed book: BLAIR, F.P. and AMOS KENDALL, editors. The Extra Globe, vol.5, nos. 19, 24-25, and vol.6, nos.1, 3-10, 12-27, Washington: Blair and Reeves, 26 July 1838-29 January 1841. 26 issues, 4to, bound in original half sheep and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, worn, joints cracked, scattered foxing, corners of a few leaves torn away. FROM THE LIBRARY OF JAMES K. POLK, signed: "James K. Polk" with paraph, on inside front cover.
An interesting, very partisan political paper, focussing on the impassioned Presidential campaign of 1840, taking a strong pro-Democrat, anti-Whig position on national and local issues in support of Martin Van Buren over the William Henry Harrison. Polk, Speaker of the House at the date of some of the early issues of this periodical, then Governor of Tennessee from 1839-41, campaigned actively for Van Buren, who was defeated in the election of November 1840. The results of that election are reported in detail in the final issue bound into this volume. Polk himself became the Democratic candidate in the 1844 election.
An interesting, very partisan political paper, focussing on the impassioned Presidential campaign of 1840, taking a strong pro-Democrat, anti-Whig position on national and local issues in support of Martin Van Buren over the William Henry Harrison. Polk, Speaker of the House at the date of some of the early issues of this periodical, then Governor of Tennessee from 1839-41, campaigned actively for Van Buren, who was defeated in the election of November 1840. The results of that election are reported in detail in the final issue bound into this volume. Polk himself became the Democratic candidate in the 1844 election.