Nickname comes from his mentor, Andrew Jackson, who was called Old Hickory. Polk entered Congress in 1824, when Jackson won the popular, but not the electoral vote to John Quincy Adams. When Jackson won both, in 1828, Polk became his protege.
Generally speaking, both the Enlightenment and American Revolution changed the way people viewed their relationship to their rulers in that they began to question the ultimate power and supremacy of a monarch, simply because he or she was born into the position.
The CCC built the State Park in Texas
