James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin rendered in the rank he

rendered in the rank he held when Lincoln finally found the general who would not retreat

the flag waved with new self-consciousness as Grant sat in the White House and the South lingered under occupation

The year places it at the tail end of the open range

Chauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 — the railroad attorney turned silver-tongued statesman caught in the year he made his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination

and the unfinished business of the Amendments — had become the quiet center of American power

James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin rendered in the rank heJames K. Polk President of the United States 1845 a campaign era portrait of the dark horse Tennessean at the threshold of his single, consequential term, when annexation, Oregon, and the coming war with Mexico were already gathering behind the calm engraver's line of his collar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and