Polk also Created The Naval Academy

Go to the Tennessee State Capitol constructing in Nashville and you will see two towering statues of former presidents who hailed from the Volunteer State: Andrew Johnson, leaning right into a majestic, Memory Wave windswept pose; and Andrew Jackson, tipping his plumed hat atop a rearing steed. Neither are buried there, but both are so prominently displayed that they've turn out to be local landmarks. And in addition they each overshadow the modest grave of one other former president who truly is interred on the grounds: James K. Polk. But the couple might not be there much longer. There's a movement afoot to exhume the Polks and transfer them about 50 miles (eighty kilometers) away, to the family's ancestral residence. Polk was truly born in North Carolina in 1795, however when he was about 10 years previous his household moved to the Tennessee frontier, Memory Wave and his father Samuel Polk built a two-story house within the town of Columbia in 1816. The long run president lived there for a number of years as a young adult, and the stately dwelling on a residential road now serves as the James K. Polk Residence and Museum.