… and wife, on this unused old Foto Tone card.  Polk was the 11th president and, buried in his Wikipedia entry, receives this faint praise:  “Though relatively obscure today, scholars have ranked Polk favorably for his ability to  achieve the major items on his presidential agenda despite limiting himself to a single term. He has also been criticized for leading the country into an aggressive war against Mexico and thus exacerbating divides between free and slave states. A property owner who used slave labor, he kept a plantation in Mississippi and increased his slave ownership during his presidency. The legacy of Polk’s policy of territorial expansion – with the United States reaching the Pacific coast  – made the United States a nation poised to become a world power, but with sectional divisions gravely exacerbated, setting the stage for the Civil War. ”  Grade: 1