High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS James K. Polk (SSBN-645), a Benjamin Franklin-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for James K. Polk (1795–1849), the eleventh President of the United States (1845-1849). She later was converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-645. The contract for James K. Polk's construction was awarded on 1 November 1962, and her keel was laid down on 23 November 1963 by the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 22 May 1965, sponsored by Mrs. Horacio Rivero, Jr., wife of Admiral Horacio Rivero, Jr., the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, and commissioned on 16 April 1966 with Commander R.M. Douglass commanding the Blue Crew and Commander F.D. McMullen, Jr., commanding the Gold Crew.

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