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apr 1, 1848 - Election of 1848

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Tired from constant scorn from Whigs and Free-Soilers, Polk did not run for president again. The Whig party ran General Zachary Taylor and won the presidency, but the issue of slavery had changed the dynamics of politics on the national scale.

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apr 1, 1848
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~ 178 years ago