The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican ... 1844: Democrats: James K. Polk Democrats desired the annexation of Texas and the complete control of Oregon Territory, then shared with ...

Polk County commissioners voted 3-2 to support a resolution from a conservative group alleging potential fraud in Florida's ...

Polk went on to narrowly defeat Henry Clay ... but Fillmore lost out on the 1852 Whig Party nomination after 53 convention ...

Democrat Kim Hagemann will face Republican Mark Holm for Polk County supervisor in District 3 in the November general ...

Not all U.S. presidents liked to drink or allowed alcohol in the White House. Take a look at all the reasons why 13 ...

Trump carried Polk County by 14.4 points in 2020, and Republicans hold a registration advantage of about 48,000 voters, with another 129,223 registered with third parties or no party.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a rising star in the Democratic Party, headlined the Polk County Democrats’ Steak Fry at Des Moines Water Works Park, which drew an estimated 500 guests. The event ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announces the results of a “violent gang investigative task force” in a news conference Tuesday. The news conference ...

DALLAS - More than two months have passed since 88-year-old Myrtle Polk went missing from her Singing Hills neighborhood in Oak Cliff, leaving her tight-knit community of family and friends on a ...

The other, District 5, was determined outright because there's no challenger from a different party in November. Complete results: See results for Polk County races The race for Property Appraiser, ...

TOLD YOU ABOUT AT FOUR. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A CRASH OUTSIDE POLK CITY. THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TELLS KCCI THIS HAPPENED AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTHWEST 126TH ...