Polk sent diplomat Nicholas Trist to negotiate with the Mexicans.

His other honors include a shared Polk Award in 1992 while at the Journal-Bulletin, for investigating the cause of a state banking crisis ; the 2003 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting, for his coverage of the first anniversary of Sept. 11 ; and the 2005 Mike Berger Award, which honors in-depth human interest reporting.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

Polk wanted territory, not war, so he compromised with the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Aberdeen.

Polk selected the top generals and set the military strategy of the war.

Finally, the Wilmot Proviso injected the issue of slavery in the new territories, even though Polk had insisted to Congress and in his diary that this had never been a war goal.

The war had serious consequences for Polk and the Democrats.

On Saturday August 8, 1846 President Polk submitted to Congress a request for $ 2, 000, 000 in order to facilitate negotiations with Mexico over the final settlement of the war.

Polk argued that, while the original intent of the war had never been to acquire territory ( a view hotly contested by his opponents ), an honorable peace required territorial compensation to the United States.

) 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.

Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked both Stockton and Frémont, had orders from President Polk and secretary of war William L. Marcy to serve as military governor.

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After the Thornton Affair of April 25-26, when Mexican forces attacked an American unit in the disputed area with 11 Americans killed, 5 wounded and 49 captured, Congress passed and Polk signed a declaration of war into effect on 13 May 1846.

Upon learning of the incident, President Polk asked for a declaration of war before a joint session of the United States Congress, and summed up his justification for war by famously stating:

After skirmishes along the Rio Grande between Mexican forces and American forces led by General Zachary Taylor, Congress approved a declaration of war and President James K. Polk called upon the states to draw up 50, 000 volunteers to be alongside the army.

However, after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in April 1846 diverted U. S. attention and military resources, a compromise was reached in the ongoing negotiations in Washington, D. C., and the matter was settled by the Polk administration ( to the dismay of its own party's militant hardliners ) to avoid a two-war situation and the third war with the formidable military strength of Great Britain in less than 70 years.

On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a message brought to him by Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, from President James Polk about the possibility of war with Mexico.

The two called on the secretary of state, secretary of war, and President James Polk.

Just before the outbreak of the war with Mexico, Polk returned to his earlier position on the Oregon boundary and accepted a compromise along the 49th parallel as far as the Strait of Georgia.

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.

During his presidency James K. Polk was known as " Young Hickory ", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump " for his speaking skills.

Even former president Jackson conceded that Johnson was " dead weight ", and threw his support to James K. Polk.

When the " Thirteen Towns ", 13 townships in Polk County, Minnesota, were opened for settlement in 1883, settlers homesteaded the region.

The documentary, " Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship ", won the George Polk Award in 1998.

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.

White's first album, 1969's Black and White, was recorded with Muscle Shoals / Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured " Willie and Laura Mae Jones " and " Polk Salad Annie ", along with covers of Jimmy Webb's " Wichita Lineman ".

In the season 8 episode " Dud Bowl II ", a scoreboard at Polk High's football stadium was to be dedicated to Al, but Marcy had it arranged for it to instead be named after Terry Bradshaw ( who says later in the episode that he never played football while attending Polk High ) out of malice ; but after hearing from Kelly how much it would mean to her father if the scoreboard honored him, Bradshaw decides to let the scoreboard to be named after Al.

* Helicopter Pilot-In Season 2 Episode 5 " Polk Defeats Truman ", Karen calls Stan and asks for him to send the helicopter to rescue her from an outlet shopping mall.

" Polk characterized this theory as " imaginative speculation ", adding that another scholar offered the " interestingly plausible " suggestion that Roland's Califerne is a corruption of the Persian Kar-i-farn, a mythological " mountain of Paradise " where griffins lived.

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" Polk characterized this theory as " imaginative speculation ", adding that another scholar offered the " interestingly plausible " suggestion that Roland's Califerne is a corruption of the Persian Kar-i-farn, a mythological " mountain of Paradise " where griffins lived.

By then it was printed widely and Polk was worried about the dangerous words the letter contained (" protection " and " discrimination ", used several times within the document ).

" Under orders from Polk, Secretary of State James Buchanan prepared an offer of $ 100 million, but " sooner than see transferred to any power, officials would prefer seeing it sunk into the ocean.

In June 1845, President James K. Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas, and by October, 3, 500 Americans were on the Nueces River, prepared to defend Texas from a Mexican invasion.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

* September 3 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

* 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

While the terms of President James K. Polk and Vice President George Mifflin Dallas had expired, Atchison's tenure as President pro tempore had already expired when the Thirtieth Congress adjourned sine die on March 4.

During the campaign, Polk's opponents said that at the age of 29 Polk was too young for a spot in the House, but he won the election and took his seat in Congress.

After Congress went into recess in the summer of 1826, Polk returned to Tennessee to see Sarah, and when Congress met again in the autumn, Polk returned to Washington with Sarah.

In 1827 Polk was reelected to Congress.

With Jackson's victory in the election Polk began to support the administration's position in Congress.

Leaving Congress in 1839, Polk became a candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent Whig, Newton Cannon by about 2, 500 votes, out of about 105, 000.

Congress passed the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1846 to provide $ 500, 000 to improve rivers and harbors, but Polk vetoed the bill.

Nonetheless, just days after the resolution passed Congress, Polk declared in his inaugural address that only Texas and the United States would decide whether to annex.

Mere days before Polk intended to make his request to Congress, he received word that Mexican forces had crossed the Rio Grande area and killed eleven American soldiers.

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.

* December 2 – Manifest Destiny: U. S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

The issue resurfaced at the end of the year when Polk, in his annual message to Congress, renewed his request with the amount needed increased to three million dollars.

In 1846, Polk delivered Walker's tariff proposal to Congress.

On December 5, 1848, President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in an address to Congress.

* December 2, 1845: President Polk announced to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.