Polk then made this the casus belli, and in a message to Congress on May 11, 1846, he stated that Mexico had " invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.

The township was not opened for settlement until 1883, when as part of the " Thirteen Towns " of eastern Polk County it was finally surveyed as a township and made available for homestead under the Homestead Act.

On May 18, 1848 president Polk approved the claims made in St. Anthony, and Steele was able to build his dam on the east side of the river above the Falls, blocking the east channel.

Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee had already made their animosity well known.

While his government asserted that the title of America to the entire territory was unquestionable even though there was only one American resident north of the Columbia basin ( who was an ex-Briton ), Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan made an offer of a boundary at 49 degrees with the line straight across Vancouver Island, with no commercial privilege to be granted to the British south of the line, with the exception of free ports on Vancouver Island.

Stockton's observations while in Texas made him aware of the looming war with Mexico, a fact he communicated directly to Polk once he arrived back in Washington.

On June 14, 1923, the country-music recording industry was launched in Atlanta when Fiddlin ' John Carson made his first phonograph record for Okeh Records Company representative Polk C. Brockman.

Tony Joe White ( born July 23, 1943, Oak Grove, Louisiana, United States ) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit " Polk Salad Annie "; " Rainy Night in Georgia ", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970 ; and " Steamy Windows ", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989.

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, Mason made a report of the finding to President James K. Polk.

Bragg assumed that any attack would be made against his left flank through the easy-to-cross Guy's Gap in the direction of Shelbyville ; he placed his larger infantry corps commanded by Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk in strong entrenchments at Shelbyville.

Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee had already made their animosity well known.

Watts had earlier been refused permission to proceed with a counter action against the FSA by the " Financial Services and Markets Tribunal " when he filed an action seeking to show that the FSA had unfairly prejudiced him in statements made in its settlement with Shell that appeared to condone the findings in the Davis Polk report.

In February 2007, Polk's " status as a symbol of journalistic integrity " was challenged by historian Richard Frank, who concluded that Polk made false claims about his service record in World War II.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

* 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

Polk oversaw the opening of the U. S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, the groundbreaking for the Washington Monument, and the issuance of the first postage stamps in the United States.

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.

Polk was admitted to the bar in June 1820 and his first case was to defend his father against a public fighting charge, and secure his release for a one dollar fine.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

* February 14 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

President Polk declared that reduction of the " Black Tariff " would be the first of the " four great measures " that would define his administration.

Especially in San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood ( the first " gay village " in that city ), gentrification seems to have had this result.

The first people to call Polk County home arrived close to 12, 000 years ago during the last ice age as the first paleo-indians arrived on the peninsula of Florida as they followed big game southward.

The Camp receives its name from Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop in Louisiana, known as the " Fighting Bishop of the Confederacy " and served as one of the major training camps during World War II.

The first known settlement of the Batesville area was in 1810 near the mouth of Polk Bayou, and by 1819 the town had a ferry across the White River and about a dozen houses.

Noblesville was named either for James Noble, one of the first two US senators from Indiana, or according to legend, for Lavina Noble of Indianapolis, to whom Josiah Polk was engaged.

The concept of an American Empire was first popularized during the presidency of James K. Polk who led the United States into the Mexican – American War of 1846, and the eventual annexation of the territories like California and the Gadsden purchase.

* Leonidas L. Polk, agrarian leader and North Carolina's first Commissioner of Agriculture

The corps was first activated on 17 January 1936 as the II Armored Corps at Camp Polk in Louisiana.

Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates.

Captain Boyton's was the first amusement park to rely solely on mechanical attractions — specifically, America's first major Shoot the Chute ride. Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk built another example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island.

* The ancestors of James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States, were among the first Ulster-Scots settlers, emigrating from Coleraine in 1680 to become a powerful political family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Moving west, Geary was appointed postmaster of San Francisco by President James K. Polk on January 22, 1849, and in 1850, he became the city's alcalde, before California became a state, and then the first mayor of the city.

In 1889 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established the first settlement house in America ( a settlement house is a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services ), in what was then a dilapidated mansion in one of the poorest immigrant slums of Chicago on the corner of Halstead and Polk streets.

The website for the George Polk Awards noted that its 1977 award to the New England Journal of Medicine " provided the first significant mainstream visibility for a publication that would achieve enormous attention and prestige in the ensuing decades.

President James K. Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving office, kept his promise not to seek re-election.

The Ocoee River, site of whitewater slalom events in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympic Games, runs through Polk County and is vital to one of the county's major industries, whitewater rafting.

Meanwhile Polk settled a major territorial dispute with Britain with the Oregon Treaty, signed on 15 June ; this avoided a conflict with Great Britain, and hence gave the U. S. a free hand.

Notwithstanding that the treaty had been negotiated against his instructions, given its achievement of the major American aim, President Polk passed it on to the Senate.

" He has received well over thirty Emmys and virtually every other major television journalism prize, including a gold baton from the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, a lifetime Peabody Award, and a George Polk Career Award ( his third George Polk Award ) for contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.

He has been a recipient of nearly every other major American journalism award, including the Heywood Broun award ( 1972 ), Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting ( 1972 and 1986 ), Sigma Delta Chi Award ( 1973 ), George Polk Award ( 1972 ), William Allen White Medal ( 2000 ), and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency ( 2002 ).

In 1906, William Bowers Bourn II, a major stockholder in the SVWC, and owner of the giant Empire Mine, hired Willis Polk to design a " water temple " atop the spot where three subterranean water mains converge, from the Arroyo de la Laguna and Alameda Creeks, the Sunol infiltration galleries, and a 30-inch pipeline from the artesian well field of Pleasanton.

Polk was commissioned a major general on June 25, 1861, and ordered to command Department No. 2 ( roughly, the area between the Mississippi River and the Tennessee River ).

In the Mexican-American War, Pillow joined the United States Army as a brigadier general in July 1846 and President Polk promoted him to major general on April 13, 1847.

Originally, its major tenants included the white shoe firms Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy ( then the bank's main outside counsel ), Davis Polk & Wardwell and Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

There are other major " conventional " units in the United States Army that have parachute capabilities ; the separate 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based in Italy and Germany, and the Alaska-based 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, which has its division headquarters in Hawaii, and the 1st Battalion ( Airborne ), 509th Infantry Regiment based in Fort Polk, Louisiana supporting the Joint Readiness Training Center as the opposing force for training rotational units.

The major strengths of the UF / FGS collection are historically important samples from the early Miocene Thomas Farm locality, the middle Miocene and early Pliocene deposits of the Bone Valley Region, Polk County, and from the late Pleistocene Vero locality, Indian River County.

It also publicizes that it is the only major national juice maker that only uses American-grown fruit ( grown by its cooperative members primarily in Polk County, Florida ) in its products.

* Harlin Polk, played by Gary Grubbs, is a major client of Will's in season one who ultimately fires him.

Southern Exposure has been recognized with numerous major journalism awards, including two George Polk Awards ( Magazine Reporting and Regional Reporting ), a National Magazine Award ( Public Interest Reporting ), the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, and awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the White House Correspondents ' Association.

During the stay of the 5th infantry Division ( Mechanized ), Fort Polk experienced a major building program.

The Louisiana Army National Guard maintains a maintenance facility on Fort Polk which services its major units such as the 256TH IBCT and 225 Engineer Brigade.