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James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was the first sitting president to be photographed with surviving images.[lower-alpha 1]
The daguerreotypes process was the primary form of photography through the 1840s, as Polk sat for Mathew Brady,John Plumbe, George Healy, Abel Shank among others.[1]
Of the confirmed daguerreotypes of Polk, there are four known physical original daguerreotypes, three copies, with one disputed amongst historians.