Fort Polk remains a United States Army post to this day.

Davis Polk and Cravath moved to Midtown in the eighties, but Milbank remains.

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

" Because the Democratic Party was splintered into bitter factions, Polk promised to serve only one term if elected, hoping that his disappointed rival Democrats would unite behind him with the knowledge that another candidate would be chosen in four years.

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.

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

As six former Secretaries of State had gone on to be elected President in their own right and as only one Congressional leader, Speaker of the House James K. Polk, had done so to that time, the change was widely accepted.

Houston was found guilty, but thanks to highly placed friends ( among them James K. Polk ), he was only lightly reprimanded.

The Lakeland-Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses the entirety of, and only, Polk County.

Ironically, O ' Sullivan's term became popular only after it was criticized by Whig opponents of the Polk administration.

Polk used local knowledge, fleeing through a maze of shallow creeks and escaped with only minor casualties ( 1 killed, 1 wounded ).

The James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia is the only one of President Polk's homes that is still standing

Jefferson Davis advised Polk that if Mexico appointed commissioners to come to the U. S., the government that appointed them would probably be overthrown before they completed their mission, and they would likely be shot as traitors on their return ; so that the only hope of peace was to have a U. S representative in Mexico.

The only endorsement Harris received was from the Polk County Democrat, a newspaper in Bartow which publishes four days out of the week.

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.

Taylor was lambasted by some in the federal government, where President James K. Polk insisted that the U. S. Army had no authority to negotiate truces, only to " kill the enemy ".

A Democrat, Polk served only one term, but is considered to have been one of the more aggressively productive men ever to hold the office, and presided over the Mexican War.

One of the most famous dark horse candidates nominated at a Democratic National Convention was James Knox Polk who was chosen to become the candidate for President only after being added to the eighth and ninth delegate ballot.

The basis of the settlement was easily established, but the hard line public position of Polk was shaken only by outbreak of the Mexican-American War.

By 1930, Polk lists only 18 Seattle film exchanges ; while Kodascope Libraries is at 111 Cherry Street in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, all of the others are on Second Avenue within a block of Battery Street ( save only Columbia Pictures at First and Battery ).

Barbara Polk has lived with her aged, sadistic uncle, Simon Polk, for 25 years — even though she hates him — as she is his only heir.

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.

After originally being conceived only as a four-mile ( 6 km ) spur of Interstate 5 into downtown Salem, the I-305 project was modified and expanded by about to include a new bridge across the Willamette River to meet Oregon Route 22, providing increased access to Polk County.

Polk was the surprise ( dark horse ) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

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.

Polk has been called the " least known consequential president " of the United States.

Polk, a relative of American president James K. Polk.

The county was established by the state government in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War and named after former United States president James K. Polk.

Polk was sworn in as president on the day after Florida's March 3, 1845 statehood ; thus Polk was the earliest U. S. President to govern Florida as a state for a full presidential term.

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

As president, however, Polk sought compromise and renewed the earlier offer to divide the territory in half along the 49th parallel, to the dismay of the most ardent advocates of Manifest Destiny.

) 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.

Polk County is named for James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States.

The county is named for James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States.

In 1852 city officials renamed Cynthian to Dallas after Vice President George M. Dallas, vice president to James Polk.

It is the birthplace of James K. Polk, the 11th U. S. president.

James K. Polk of Tennessee, president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, was prominent early Yalobusha County landowner.

At that time, Polk was president elect.

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 had been formed in 1817 and was named for Alexander J. Dallas, who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of George M. Dallas, the vice president of James 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.

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.

In 1846 Wheaton was requested to resign as Prussian minister by the new president, Polk, who needed his place for another appointment.