David Rice Atchison | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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David Rice Atchison


00:00:58 1 Early life
00:01:34 2 Missouri lawyer and politician
00:03:06 3 Senate career
00:05:28 3.1 Border Ruffians
00:09:14 3.2 Defeated for re-election
00:09:43 3.3 Railroad proposal
00:10:10 4 Civil War General
00:12:06 5 Purported one-day presidency
00:15:16 6 Legacy
00:16:04 7 See also



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David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807 – January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Freemason and 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 general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Home Guard. He is best known for the questionable claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been Acting President of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.Atchison, owner of many slaves and a plantation, was a prominent pro-slavery activist and Border Ruffian leader, deeply involved with violence against abolitionists and other free-staters during the "Bleeding Kansas" events.