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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-535
JAMES K. POLK PRESIDENTIAL HOME STUDY ACT
JANUARY 29, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 443]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 443) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the
suitability and feasibility of designating the James K. Polk Home
in Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park System,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 443 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the James K.
Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park
System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, lived in
Columbia, Tennessee, from 1819 until 1824. Nominated as the first
dark-horse presidential candidate, Polk unified a split Democratic
Party to defeat Henry Clay of the Whig Party, assuming office in
1844. Despite only serving one term, Polk is considered by some to
be the most efficient President, accomplishing all the domestic and
foreign policy goals established during his campaign. Although fre-
quently overshadowed by his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, Polk is
credited with a wide range of policy accomplishments, most notably
expanding the western territorial holdings of the United States
through the Mexican-American War and the establishment of the
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