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Discuss the results of the presidential election of 1844 and cite Polk's position on Texas annexation.

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The subject of territorial expansion became a focal point as the presidential election of 1844 neared. Former President Martin Van Buren, a Democrat, and Henry Clay, a Whig, we're expected to run against one other. Then something unexpected happened: Van Buren was denied the Democratic presidential candidacy. James K. Polk of Tennessee was nominated as the first dark horse, or unexpected candidate, in the history of the president by a group of Southerners who wanted Texas and Westerners who wanted Oregon.

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