Poor James Knox Polk. The 11th president can't seem to catch a break. Consider his accomplishments: He cut tariff rates, created the Independent Treasury System (a forerunner to the Federal Reserve) and brought to the country more than 500,000 square miles of territory stretching to the Pacific. In polls of historians, he ranks high—11th in an aggregate ranking of 12 academic polls since 1948.
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