Editing Polk County, Texas (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Percy Foreman]] - notable criminal defense attorney
* [[John Wesley Hardin]] - [[Old West]] [[gunslinger]]
* [[William P. Hobby]] - Governor of Texas, publisher of ''[[Houston Post]]''
* [[Sam Houston]], general of the revolution to achieve independence and President of the Republic of Texas, spent much time in Polk County, including making peace treaties with the Alabama-Coushata Indians.<ref>[http://www.alabama-coushatta.com/History/TribalHistory.aspx "Tribal History"], Alabama-Coushatta website</ref>
* [[Margo Jones]] - stage director who launched the careers of [[Tennessee Williams]] and [[Ray Walston]] and directed Williams' ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]<ref>[http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Tennessee-Williams-Texas-Director-Margaret-Virginia-Margo-Jones-BB506.htm "Margaret Virginia Margo Jones"], Texas Escapes website</ref>
* [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]], noted French explorer of the 17th century, was likely killed in Polk County.<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fla04 "René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle"], ''Handbook of Texas Online'', accessed November 18, 2014</ref>
* [[Sally Mayes]] was a Broadway actress and singer. Livingston named a street in her honor.
* [[Mark Moseley]], professional football player, won [[Super Bowl XVII]] and was awarded 1982 MVP as a [[placekicker]].
* [[Moon Mullican]] - musician, "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players"
* Captain (Ike) Isaac Newton Moreland Turner was a Confederate captain who joined the Civil War from Polk County, with units called the [[Texas Brigade]]; his remains were returned here from Georgia and were reinterred in his family cemetery on April 15, 1995.<ref>[http://usads.ms11.net/randy.html Randy Hill, "A Southern Homecoming"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513043132/http://usads.ms11.net/randy.html |date=May 13, 2008 }}, n.d., USA Deep South website</ref>
* [[Annette Gordon-Reed]] (born November 19, 1958, in Livingston, Texas) is an American historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with [[Sally Hemings]] and her children.