Illustration
The cabinet of US President James K. Polk in the White House dining room, by John Plumbe, Jr., c. 1846.
Bottom row, left to right: Attorney General John Y. Mason, Secretary of War William L. Marcy, President Polk, Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker.
Back row, left to right: Postmaster General Cave Johnson, Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft. (Secretary of State James Buchanan is absent).
James K. Polk Presidential Museum.
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