President James K. Polk and His Entire Cabinet
This is the first time we have seen one sheet of paper with the signatures of Polk and his Cabinet
The 1846–48 Mexican War redrew the political map of North America, bringing California and the Southwest into the United States. To many contemporaries the conflict seemed a justifiable expression of American “Manifest Destiny.” At the helm was James K. Polk, who served one term as president and died shorty after leaving office.
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The 1846–48 Mexican War redrew the political map of North America, bringing California and the Southwest into the United States. To many contemporaries the conflict seemed a justifiable expression of American “Manifest Destiny.” At the helm was James K. Polk, who served one term as president and died shorty after leaving office.
There were six Cabinet positions in the Polk administration. James Buchanan, the future president, served as Polk’s Secretary of State. Robert Walker was his Secretary of the Treasury. Walker was later Buchanan’s territorial governor of Kansas, a difficult job given the controversy between proslavery and abolitionist forces over whether the territory would enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. George Bancroft was Secretary of the Navy. He established the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Following that stint, Bancroft became the U.S. minister to Great Britain. William Marcy was Secretary of War. He later served in President Franklin Pierce’s cabinet as Secretary of State. John Y. Mason was Attorney General, and afterwards Navy Secretary. Cave Johnson was Postmaster General. President Buchanan later nominated Johnson as a U.S. commissioner to mediate between the United States and the Paraguay Navigation Company.
This is the first time we have ever seen one sheet of paper with the signatures of Polk and his entire Cabinet. It is truly a rarity.
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