In addition to trying to outline sane lobbying reform for our ongoing criminal conspiracy/state government, Field Marshall Hood has discovered a history of James Polk’s Mecklenburg experience:
[Mecklenburg was] an environment of fierce independence and self-reliance, bolstered by orthodox Presbyterianism. His father, Samuel, and his grandfather, Ezekiel, were leaders in economic matters, politics, and community influence. Young James imbibed the Jeffersonian views of his family and friends, who extolled the virtues of the agricultural setting and a simple life that was only peripherally touched by a limited government. Moreover, frugality and fairness were almost equal watchwords of the community.
Polk biographer Paul Bergeron further describes the “essence of Mecklenburg” as the former President recalled it as revolving around hard work and honesty, along with doing business “on a basis of rough equality and mutual respect.”
Polk was born in Pineville in 1795.
