James K. Polk

James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was the eleventh President of the United States. He was born in Mecklinburg, North Carolina (see: Inconsistencies in Harry Turtledove's Works) and a monument was erected on the spot of his birth. This monument was deemed a fit meeting place for the meeting between Irving Morrell and Don Partridge at which Partridge signed away Confederate sovereignty, because Polk had been President before the United States was divided by the War of Secession.