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{{quote|"Who the hell are the Whigs?"|Most high school students.}}
Um... [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] sang about him? And the school in ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' was named after him, wasn't it? Or was it ''[[Married... with Children]]''? The only US Presidential candidate to lose both his home state and state of residence but still win [[Donald Trump|until 2016]]? <ref>Yes, yes, yes and yes.</ref>
Seriously, the 11th president was one of the most underrated in history. He is sometimes called "Our greatest one-term president." Between the purchase of the Oregon Territory (present-day [[The Other Rainforest|Oregon, Washington State]], [[The Several States|Idaho, and chunks of Montana and Wyoming]]) in a move that avoided the serious threat of war over the territory with Great Britain, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which added California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and parts of three other states), added almost a million square miles to U.S. territory. Had an enviable record for setting and ([[American Political System|gasp!]]) accomplishing his agenda.
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