David Rice Atchison
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David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th-century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major gene
David Rice Atchison by Mathew Brady March 1849
Statue in front of the Clinton County Courthouse, Plattsburg, Missouri
David Rice Atchison's tombstone
An acting president of the United States is a person who lawfully exercises the powers and duties of the president of the United States despite not holding the office in their own right. There is an e
David Rice Atchison
…Price in the Missouri Home Guard. Some of Atchison's associates claimed that for 24 hours—Sunday, March 4, 1849, through noon on Monday—he may have been acting president of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by most scholars. Atchison, owner of many slaves and a plantation, was a prominent pro-slavery activist and border…
1888 illustration of John Tyler receiving notification of William Henry Harrison's death