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

Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.

James Knox Polk ( " poke "; November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849 ) was the 11th President of the United States ( 1845 – 1849 ).

Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

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 a leader of Jacksonian Democracy during the Second Party System.

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.

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.

His father, Samuel Polk, was a slaveholder, successful farmer and surveyor of Scots-Irish descent.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

While Jane remained a devout Presbyterian her entire life, Samuel ( whose father, Ezekiel Polk, was a deist ) rejected dogmatic Presbyterianism.

Polk was home schooled.

Polk was awake during the operation with nothing but brandy available for anesthetic, but it was successful.

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.

On September 20, 1819, Polk, with Grundy's endorsement, was elected clerk for the Tennessee State Senate.

Polk was reelected as clerk in 1821 without opposition, and would continue to serve until 1822.

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 1822 Polk joined the local militia and rose to the rank of captain, and was soon promoted to colonel.

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

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.

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.

Girl Scouts of West Central Florida serves more than 28, 000 girls in 8 Florida counties ( Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Marion, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sumter ).

There the President Polk embarked the ground echelons of two squadrons of the 7th Bomb Group ( based at Jogjakarta ) and continued to Java, escorted by the heavy cruiser USS Houston, arriving in Surabaya on 28 January.

Sarah Childress, aged 20, married James Polk, aged 28, on January 1, 1824, at the plantation home of the bride's parents near Murfreesboro.

President Davis transferred his friend Polk to command the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana ( December 23, 1863 – January 28, 1864 ) and then the Department of Alabama and East Mississippi ( January 28 – May 4, 1864 ), giving him effective command of the state of Mississippi following the departure of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to replace Bragg in command of the Army of Tennessee.

Pillow resigned from the Army on December 28 in a dispute with Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, but he soon realized that this was a rash decision and was able to cancel his resignation by obtaining an order from Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

On December 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state in the Union when President James K. Polk signed Iowa's admission bill into law.