* Corinth, Polk County, Arkansas

Five years later, while barely in his teens, he played in rock and roll cover bands such as the Pacers and the Legends, headlining in clubs owned by his stepfather in the Winter Haven / Polk County area.

Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.

Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

James Knox Polk, the first of ten children, was born on November 2, 1795 in a farmhouse ( possibly a " log " cabin ) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.

" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

* Lincoln, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town

* Roome Township, Polk County, Minnesota

The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County.

* The Lexington, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa

The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJ's father's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

* Polk County ( west )

** Farmington, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town

* Lowell Township, Polk County, Minnesota

Brevard County in 1856 extended as far west as Polk County and as far south as coastal Broward County.

The portions of Brevard County in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties were given to Dade County, western areas of the county were given to Polk and Osceola counties, and parts of Volusia and Orange counties were given to Brevard, including the eventual county seat of Titusville.

* Polk County, Florida-north

Hernando, together with Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties to the south comprise the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area, and along with various combinations of Manatee and Sarasota counties further south, Citrus County to the north, and Polk County to the southeast is often referred to as the Tampa Bay Area.

* Polk County, Florida-north

Hillsborough, together with Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties comprise the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area, and along with various combinations of Manatee and Sarasota counties to the south, Citrus County to the north, and Polk County to the east is often referred to as the Tampa Bay Area.

Polk was the last strong pre – Civil War president, and he is the earliest of whom there are surviving photographs taken during a term in office.

The house where Polk spent his adult life before his presidency, in Columbia, Tennessee, is his only private residence still standing.

Biographers usually doubt these, though the baptism of Polk is well documented.

* Fort Polk, a " T-72 " VISMOD is on display on Mississippi Avenue near the headquarters of 1st Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

It is also the most recent presidential election where the winner, Polk, lost both his home state ( North Carolina ) and his state of residence ( Tennessee ).

To date, James K. Polk is the only Speaker of the House to be later elected President of the United States.

Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 347, 214 at the 2000 census.

Salem is located in the north-central Willamette Valley, in Marion and Polk counties.

Meanwhile, Snyder has tracked Hooker to Chicago, but his pursuit is thwarted when he is summoned by undercover FBI agents led by Agent Polk, who orders him to assist in their scheme to arrest Gondorff using Hooker.

Polk confronts Gondorff, then tells Hooker he is free to go.

Agent Polk is actually Hickey, a con man, running a con atop Gondorff's con to divert Snyder and provide a solid " blow off " to Gondorff's con.

Pasco, together with Hernando, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties comprise the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area, and along with various combinations of Manatee and Sarasota counties further south, Citrus County to the north, and Polk County to the east is often referred to as the Tampa Bay Area.

Pinellas, together with Hillsborough, Hernando, and Pasco counties form the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area, and along with various combinations of Manatee and Sarasota counties to the south, Citrus County to the north, and Polk County to the east is often referred to as the Tampa Bay Area.

Polk County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

Polk County is coextensive with the Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Located in central Florida along the I-4 Corridor, Polk, along with the counties to the west, is sometimes considered a part of the Tampa Bay Area.

Growth in Polk County is driven by proximity to both the Tampa and Orlando metropolitan areas along the Interstate 4 corridor.

Polk County nearly borders Orange County and is considered by many to be adjacent although the two counties do not technically share a border.

* Although the area of Orange County that borders Lake County, Osceola County and that virtually touches Polk County is called the " Four Corners " area, Orange County Florida does not actually border Polk County, Florida.

Polk also issued the gag rule on petitions from abolitionists.

Polk went on to win a narrow victory over Whig candidate Henry Clay, in part because Clay had taken a stand against expansion, although economic issues were also of great importance.

Many in the North were also upset with the Walker tariff which reduced the tariff rates ; others were opposed to Polk ’ s veto of a popular river and harbor improvements bill, and still others were upset over the Oregon settlement with Great Britain where it appeared that Polk did not pursue the northern territory with the same vigor he used to acquire Texas.

Many San Francisco gays also moved there after about 1970 from what had been the formerly most prominent gay neighborhood, Polk Gulch, because large Victorian houses were available at low rents or available for purchase for low down payments when their former middle-class owners had fled to the suburbs.

) When Polk moved to terminate the joint occupation agreement, the British finally agreed to divide the region along the 49th parallel in early 1846, keeping the lower Columbia basin as part of the United States, and the dispute was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which the administration was able to sell to congress because the United States was about to begin the Mexican-American war, and the president and others argued it would be foolish to also fight the British Empire.

The original boundaries of Houston County also included all of present-day Anderson and Trinity Counties, and portions of present-day Henderson and Polk Counties.

The calmer Hiwassee River, a tributary of the Tennessee River which flows through northern Polk County, is also used for rafting and tubing.

It is also home to two high schools, Copper Basin and Polk county High School.

Frye also aided James Polk in compiling Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture ( 1982 ).

* In November 2007, an opera, also titled Elmer Gantry, by Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville.

Polk County is also served by an additional non-freeway U. S. Highway: U. S. Route 176.

The town has also gone by the names of Napoleon and Polk Bayou.

The Village Council is composed of John Mahoney ( Mayor ; Liquor Control Commissioner ), Kenneth " Kent " Oliven, CPA ( Commissioner of Accounts & Finances ; Mayor Pro-Tem ), Nicole Milovich-Walters ( Commissioner of Streets & Public Improvements ; by Village Code also in charge of Recreation ), Dan Polk ( Commissioner of Public Health & Safety ), and G. Darryl Reed ( Commissioner of Building and Public Property ).

The Polk County Fair is also the main attraction for the town of Fertile during the summer.

The Polk County Sheriff's Department is also found in the city limits and includes seven sworn officers, four part-time officers and five support personnel.

Dobson was named for prominent Rockford and Surry County citizen William Polk Dobson who was also the cousin of former president, James K. Polk.

The township was formed in 1817 from territory taken from Kingston Township, and it was named for Alexander J. Dallas, who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and also the father of George M. Dallas, the vice president of James Polk.

Alongside David K. Shipler he also won the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

This limited edition is also sold with a special commentary volume edited by Faulkner scholars Stephen Ross and Noel Polk.

He was also the United States Postmaster General under James K. Polk from 1845 – 1849.

Bedford Springs became an attraction for politicians, and, in addition to serving as the " Summer White House " for President James Buchanan from 1857 to 1861, also served as a getaway and meeting place for other presidents such as William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor, as well as a multitude of senators and congressmen, and their families.

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ruby Laffoon also owed his selection to the machinations of the state's political bosses, notably his uncle, Congressman Polk Laffoon.