From 1981 to 1984, Ferguson was an attorney at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he worked with commercial banks, investment banks, and Fortune 500 corporations on syndicated loans, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and new product development.

One of the nation's leading experts in tax law, Schizer worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell prior to joining the Columbia Law faculty in 1998.

Peer, who worked for Okeh at the time, recorded Fiddlin ' John Carson using the old acoustic method ( known for its large intrusive sound-gathering horn ) in 1924, at the behest of the Okeh dealer in Atlanta, Georgia, Polk Brockman.

Artists who have worked extensively in geometric abstraction include Nadir Afonso, Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Mino Argento, Max Bill, Ilya Bolotowsky, Nassos Daphnis, Ronald Davis, Tony DeLap, Burgoyne Diller, Theo van Doesburg, Thomas Downing, Günter Fruhtrunk, Al Held, Wassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Hilma af Klint, Frantisek Kupka, Michael Loew, Kazimir Malevich, Agnes Martin, John McLaughlin, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Alejandro Otero, Ad Reinhardt, Jack Reilly, Bridget Riley, Alexander Rodchenko, Sean Scully, Leon Polk Smith, Frank Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Victor Vasarely, Charmion von Wiegand, Zanis Waldheims, Gordon Walters, Neil Williams and Larry Zox among others.

Other notable performers at the Workshop or in the Touring Company include Jerry Young, Kathy Drago, Roger Manning, Ken Polk, Ronnie Foster ( sic ), Karen Rosen, Toni Potts, Shane McClure, EJ Nolan, Author, Dan Barton, Producer, Fred Greenlee, Louis Allen Epstein, Bill Silva, David Ayala, and Dee Macaluso, who was among many who worked both sides of the Workshop doing both Improv Comedy, as well as Standup in the Annex.

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 oversaw the opening of the U. S. Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, the groundbreaking for the Washington Monument, and the issuance of the first postage stamps in the United States.

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 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 resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

In October 1823 Polk voted for Andrew Jackson to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee.

In 1825, Polk ran for the United States House of Representatives for the Tennessee's 6th congressional district.

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.

In 1828, Jackson ran for President again and during the campaign Polk and Jackson corresponded, with Polk giving Jackson advice on his campaign.

Polk ran against fellow Tennessean John Bell for Speaker, and, after ten ballots, Bell won.

However, in 1835, Polk ran against Bell for Speaker again and won.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

Polk received one electoral vote from Tennessee for Vice President in the election.

Polk initially hoped to be nominated for vice-president at the Democratic convention, which began on May 27, 1844.

Before the convention, Jackson told Polk that he was his favorite for the nomination of the Democratic Party.

This assured that if a deadlocked convention occurred, initial supporters of Van Buren would pick Polk as a compromise candidate for the Democrats.

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

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.

Polk feared that passing the Rivers and Harbors Bill would encourage legislators to compete for favors for their home districts – a type of corruption that would spell doom to the virtue of the republic.

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

He was eventually forced out of the Senate when Jackson's allies, led by James K. Polk, gained control of the Tennessee state legislature and demanded his resignation.

He initially supported the policies of President James Polk.

The physically separate subwoofer / satellite arrangement has been popularized by multimedia speaker systems such as Bose Acoustimass Home Entertainment Systems, Polk Audio RM2008 Series and Klipsch Audio Technologies ProMedia.

The Whigs believed that Jones, widely known as an entertaining speaker and storyteller, was their best shot to defeat the eloquent and witty incumbent, James K. Polk.

Two inch flared port tube installed in the top of a Polk S10 speaker cabinet as part of a DIY audio project

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

However, with support from Polk and his cabinet, Van Buren chose to stick with the Specie Circular.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

Even with this support, Polk instructed his managers at the convention to support Van Buren if he could win the nomination.

Van Buren outlived his four immediate successors as President ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor ).

This election was unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had been or would become President of the United States: current President Martin Van Buren ; President-elect William Henry Harrison ; Vice-President-elect John Tyler, who would succeed Harrison upon his death ; and James K. Polk, who received one electoral vote for Vice President, and who would succeed Tyler come 1845.

However, midway through Polk ’ s term, Democratic dissatisfaction with the administration was growing within the Martin Van Buren, or Barnburner, wing of the Democratic Party over other issues.

While Welles dutifully supported James K. Polk in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Freesoil campaign.

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.

The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election ( he lost ) and James K. Polk in the 1844 election ( he won ).

In Washington as congressman's wife during the administrations of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren, Mrs. Polk very much enjoyed her social duties.

The term " dark horse candidate " was coined at the 1844 Democratic National Convention, at which little-known Tennessee politician James K. Polk emerged as the candidate after the failure of the leading candidates — former President Martin Van Buren and Senator Lewis Cass — to secure the necessary two-thirds majority.

At the Democratic nominating convention a month later, however, Van Buren was unable to secure his party's nomination, and the Democrats instead nominated James K. Polk, who strongly favored annexation.

The park also incorporates the Aquatic Park Historic District, bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street, and Hyde Street.

After swinging northeast and back north to the east side of Van Ness Avenue ( continuing as a double-decked structure between Van Ness Ave. and Polk Street ), a pair of ramps would split to the east, taking downtown traffic to and from the one-way pair of Bush and Pine Streets.

In the original 1955 plan, it was planned to extend the Central Freeway as a double decked structure between Van Ness Ave. and Polk Street north to Clay Street, then as a single deck depressed freeway north to Broadway, where it would have tunneled under Russian Hill to connect with Interstate 480.

In 1844, Donelson was instrumental in helping James K. Polk win the Democratic presidential nomination over Martin Van Buren and other more notable candidates.