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.

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

Hardee returned to Bragg's army after the Battle of Chickamauga, taking over the corps of Leonidas Polk at Chattanooga, Tennessee, besieging the Union Army there.

After 13 months of occupation duty in Germany, the corps returned to Camp Polk, Louisiana, where it was inactivated on 10 October 1946.

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.

In 1846, President James K. Polk appointed him 20th Attorney General of the United States after his predecessor, John Y. Mason, returned to being Naval Secretary.

He returned to Tennessee and invested in railroads and manufacturing interests, while politically opposing Polk, who won the presidency in 1844 but failed to carry Tennessee through Bell's efforts.

After the war, he returned to Polk County, settling in Lakeland, Florida, and practiced law while becoming a citrus grower and newspaper owner and editor.

In late 1776 Polk surrendered his commission in the 3rd Regiment and returned to North Carolina, settling down on a farm about below Charlotte, the Mecklenburg County seat.

So, Berry Hendry returned to Polk County, and was appointed to serve on the Board of Public Instruction.

" 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 ).

and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television ; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill ; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

He also received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

For his reporting, he won the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism twice, in 1971 and 1974.

The campus is recognized by the New York Times as one of the most diverse in the U. S. and is home to the prestigious George Polk Awards in journalism.

* George Polk Awards ( American journalism )

The late Kevin Carmody, environment reporter, won a 1999 George Polk Award -- one of the nation's most prestigious prizes in journalism -- for his stories on the official cover-up of the illness and death of employees exposed to toxic metals decades ago in A-bomb factories.

The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States.

The articles were honored in 1996 with a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, the first of two that Eichenwald would be awarded.

The film has won numerous awards for journalism, including the George Polk Award.

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.

The film won an Emmy Award ( 1980 ), George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV, Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism, and the Mannheim Film Festival first critics ' prize.

In 1968, he published a book documenting the trials called The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill, which won a George Polk Award in journalism.

Unlike other prizes in journalism such as the George Foster Peabody Awards, the George Polk Awards, the National Journalism Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes, the Livingston Awards judge print, broadcast and online entries against one another.

Within months of his death, a group of American journalists instigated the George Polk Awards for outstanding radio or television journalism.

Lincoln emphasized his opposition to Polk by drafting and introducing his Spot Resolutions.

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 ".

On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.

Then, in order to prevent Polk from dissipating his forces by implementing his proposal to allow some men to join a partisan group, Johnston ordered him to send Pillow and 5, 000 men to Fort Donelson.

Alerted by a Union reconnaissance on January 14, 1862, Johnston ordered Tilghman to fortify the high ground opposite Fort Henry, which Polk had failed to do despite Johnston's orders.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

Bragg at least calmed the nerves of Beauregard and Polk who had become agitated by their apparent dire situation in the face of numerically superior forces before the arrival of Johnston on March 24, 1862.

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

Polk made his first major speech on March 13, 1826, in which he said that the Electoral College should be abolished and that the President should be elected by the popular vote.

Van Buren and Polk faced pressure to rescind the Specie Circular, an act that had been signed by Jackson to boost the economy.

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.

Polk lost his own reelection to James C. Jones, in 1841, by 3, 243 votes.

Polk won the popular vote by a margin of about 39, 000 out of 2. 6 million, and took the Electoral College with 170 votes to Clay's 105.

According to a story told decades later by George Bancroft, Polk set four clearly defined goals for his administration:

President Polk, 1858 portrait, by George Peter Alexander Healy | George Healy

Polk argued instead for extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, which would prohibit the expansion of slavery above 36 ° 30 ' west of Missouri, but allow it below that line if approved by eligible voters in the territory.

In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande — territory that was claimed by both the U. S. and Mexico.

Even after these battles, Mexico did not surrender until 1848, when it agreed to peace terms set out by Polk.

This includes his reluctance to resolve a dispute between Leonidas Polk, a personal friend, and Braxton Bragg, who was defeated in important battles and distrusted by his subordinates.

By 1844, the Whigs began their recovery by nominating Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion ( particularly the annexation of Texas ) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.

One of its elected presidents was a U. S. citizen by birth, R. D. Polk.

File: White House 1846. jpg | Earliest known photograph of the White House, taken c. 1846 by John Plumbe during the administration of James K. Polk.

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