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During the spring of 1846, President Polk and his cabinet assembled in the State Dining Room (Thomas Jefferson’s old office) and took the first photograph of a president and his advisers and the first photograph known to have been taken inside the White House. Front row, left to right: John Y. Mason, William L. Marcy, James K. Polk, Robert J. Walker Back row, left to right: Cave Johnson, George Bancroft, Secretary of State James Buchanan is absent.
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