The Polks had connections with the university, then a small school of about 80 students: Sam Polk was their land agent for Tennessee, and his cousin, William Polk, was a trustee.

Jackson won and from then on Polk was a firm supporter of Jackson.

Polk was then 28, and Sarah was 20 years old.

Just then, Agent Polk, Lt. Snyder, and half a dozen FBI officers storm the parlor.

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

Gondorff, reacting to the betrayal, shoots Hooker in the back ; Polk then shoots Gondorff and orders Snyder to get Lonnegan away from the crime scene.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, William Edwards Deming was raised in Polk City, Iowa on his grandfather Henry Coffin Edwards's chicken farm, then later on a farm purchased by his father in Powell, Wyoming.

Frank Ives was a judge in Crookston, MN, which was the county seat of Polk County ( of which Pennington was then a part ) and his son, Harry Ives, was the postmaster when the St. Hilaire post office began in 1882 while still part of Polk County.

As a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission ( BRAC ) reductions, the 5th Infantry Division ( Mechanized ), then located at Fort Polk Louisiana, was reflagged as the U. S. 2nd Armored Division in late 1992.

Tyler was then succeeded by James Polk, a staunch supporter and protege of Jackson, and the last of the true Jacksonian presidents.

Due to the dominance of the then Democratic Party of Van Buren, Polk, and Buchanan the American School was not embraced as the economic philosophy of the United States until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who with a series of laws during the American Civil War was able to fully implement what Hamilton, Clay, List, and Carey theorized, wrote about, and advocated.

In Polk, he attended public school, then went on to the University of Florida at Gainesville.

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.

Democratic presidential candidate James K. Polk won the 1844 election, but then sought a compromise boundary along the 49th parallel, the same boundary proposed by previous U. S. administrations.

U. S. 171 travels through the community of Pickering and the junction of LA 10, the main entrance to Fort Polk, Louisiana, New Llano, then into the city of Leesville.

The line turns north near Paulina Street stopping at 18th and Polk Streets then curves east over the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ).

The Holland firm was established in Polk County, Florida, then a center of citrus production and phosphate mining.

Flowing west, it crosses into Lincoln County, returns to Polk County, then re-enters Lincoln County for the last time about from the mouth.

It flows southeast to Hoskins in Benton County, then northeast into Polk County, past Pedee, then east across southern Polk County.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

In his message to Congress on May 11, 1846, President Polk explained that Texas was about to become one of the United States of America.

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

* 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.

Polk regarded this treatment of his diplomat as an insult and an " ample cause of war ", and he prepared to ask Congress for a declaration of war.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.