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Atchison and continued
Atchison continued to serve through the end of 1861.
Atchison relocated to Plattsburg in Clinton County, as Doniphan continued to make his name in Liberty.
In 1877 Howe established and edited the Atchison, Kansas, newspaper Globe ( Atchison Daily Globe ), which he continued for twenty-five years, retiring in 1911.

Atchison and President
When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.
In 1849 Atchison stepped down as President pro tempore in favor of William R. King.
King in turn yielded the office back to Atchison in December 1852, since King had been elected Vice President of the United States.
Atchison himself never claimed that he was technically President of the United States for one day — Sunday, March 4, 1849.
As President pro tempore, and therefore Acting Vice President, under the presidential succession law in place at the time, Atchison was believed by some to be Acting President.
However, while it is alleged that the offices of President and Vice President were vacant, Atchison in fact was not next in line.
No disability or lack of qualification prevented Taylor and Fillmore from taking office, and as they had been duly certified to take office that day as president-elect and vice president-elect, if Taylor was not president because he had not been sworn in as such, then Atchison, who had not been sworn in either, certainly was not President either.
Atchison was sworn in for his new term as President pro tempore minutes before both Fillmore and Taylor, which might theoretically make him Acting President for at least that length of time ; however, this also implies that many times when the Vice President is sworn in before the President, the Vice President is the de facto Acting President.
Since this is a common occurrence, if Atchison is considered President, so must every Vice President whose inauguration preceded that of the President if the President was sworn in after noon on Inauguration Day.
Therefore, while one could argue that Atchison was theoretically President for a few minutes ( though even this much is highly debatable ), claims that he should be considered an official President are surely disputable.
Atchison was 41 years and 6 months old at the alleged time of the One-Day Presidency, younger than any official President.

Atchison and pro
Atchison himself was the senate ’ s president pro tempore.
Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.
They go on to argue that, because the previous President's term had expired at noon, President pro tempore of the Senate David Rice Atchison was acting president for the day.
President pro tempore David R. Atchison

Atchison and until
Atchison County was a prohibition, or " dry ", county until the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 % food sales requirement.
The BN operated until 1996, when it merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.
Beginning in March 1938, under the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, and later under Amtrak until May 30, 2000, this same service was called the San Diegan.
The Southwest Chief is the successor to the Super Chief, a train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( Santa Fe ) until 1971 and later by Amtrak until March 1974 when the Santa Fe forced Amtrak to stop using the name because of a perceived decline in quality after Amtrak took over the Santa Fe's passenger trains.
John Shedd's grandson, John Shedd Reed, who had served as president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad from 1967 to 1986, was president of the aquarium's board from 1984 until 1994, and was a life trustee until his death in 2008.
He was married to Bessie Payne Roe from 1910 until her death in 1943, and had one daughter with her, Gladys Atchison Reckord.
In 1889 he left the SPM & M to succeed William Barstow Strong as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, a position he held until 1893.

Atchison and December
This new holding company then purchased the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( often called the " Santa Fe ") and Burlington Northern Railroad, and formally merged the railways into the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway on 31 December 1996.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ceased operations on December 31, 1996 when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway or BNSF Railway.
* December 23 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway enters receivership three days after the railroad's chairman died.
* December 20 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s ( b. 1840 ).
* December 23-The first section of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad is opened between Topeka, Kansas, and the Colorado / Kansas border.
* December 12 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurates its first extra-fare named passenger train, the Santa Fe De Luxe between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
Cajon Pass was the site of a major train accident on 14 December 1994, when a westbound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe intermodal train lost control and crashed into the rear of a westbound Southern Pacific coal train just below California Highway 138 between Alray and Cajon.
Milton Atchison Reckord ( December 28, 1879 – September 8, 1975 ) was an important figure in the history of the National Guard of the United States.
George C. Magoun ( August 25, 1840 – December 20, 1893 ) was, in the late 1880s, the Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
On December 1, 1895, as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway emerged from receivership, Ripley became the Santa Fe's president.

Atchison and 1854
Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.
In 1854 Atchison helped found the town of Atchison, Kansas, as a pro-slavery settlement.

Atchison and .
* 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician ( d. 1886 )
David Rice Atchison ( August 11, 1807January 26, 1886 ) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri.
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.
Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown ( later Kirklevington ), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky.
Atchison was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1829.
Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.
Atchison, already a member of the Liberty Blues, a volunteer militia in Missouri, got Doniphan to join.
Atchison was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1834.
When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.
In October 1843, Atchison was appointed to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy left by the death of Lewis F. Linn.
Later in 1843, Atchison was appointed to serve the remainder of Linn's term, which he shared with fellow senator Jason Zein, and was re-elected in 1849.
Atchison was very popular with his fellow Senate Democrats.
As a Senator, Atchison was a fervent advocate of slavery and territorial expansion.
Atchison and Missouri's other Senator, the venerable Thomas Hart Benton, became rivals and finally enemies, though both were Democrats.
Benton declared himself to be against slavery in 1849, and in 1851 Atchison allied with the Whigs to defeat Benton for re-election.

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