Benton declared himself to be against slavery in 1849, and in 1851 Atchison allied with the Whigs to defeat Benton for re-election.

Atchison himself was the senate ’ s president pro tempore.

The core team that developed the technology was driven by Barclay Tullis, who held most of the patents, with Dave Thrasher who later joined the Silicon Valley Group, and Thomas Atchison a member of the technical staff under direction of Barclay Tullis .. Mihir later provided the technology to SEMI, and then licensed a copy for himself, and spun out Asyst Technologies to provide the technology commercially.

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 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.

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.

As a Senator, Atchison was a fervent advocate of slavery and territorial expansion.

This was viewed as a breach of faith by Atchison and his supporters.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

Atchison favored secession, while Doniphan was torn and would remain for the most part non-committal.

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.

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 continued as President pro tempore until December 1854.

Atchison was 41 years and 6 months old at the alleged time of the One-Day Presidency, younger than any official President.

Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.

Atchison County is a county located in Northwest Missouri in the United States.

Atchison County ( county code AT ) is a county located in Northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.

The county is named in honor of David Rice Atchison, a United States Senator from Missouri.

Effingham is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, United States.

Huron is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, United States.

Lancaster is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, in the United States.

Muscotah is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, United States.

Fairfax is a city in Clark Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States.

Rock Port is a city in Clay Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States and the county seat of Atchison County.

Tarkio is a city in Tarkio Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States.

Watson is a village in Nishnabotna Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States.

Westboro is a city in Lincoln Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States.

A golden spike was driven here in 1881 to commemorate the meeting of the Southern Pacific with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads, completing the construction of the second transcontinental railroad in the United States.

Atchison County is the name of two counties in the United States, both named for Missouri Senator David Rice Atchison:

Benedictine College is a co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, United States, founded in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College for men and Mount St. Scholastica College for women.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States, chartered in February 1859.

In the United States and elsewhere the is known as the Santa Fe type, after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that first used the type in 1903.

For twenty-five consecutive years he was chairman of the Atchison County Republican Central Committee ; was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1884, and secretary of the committee during the last four years of that period ; served as a delegate to the first Republican Convention in 1860, and was a member of the 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880 Republican National Conventions ; was a member of one of the vice-presidents of the United States Centennial commission ; was one of the founders of the Kansas Historical Society, of which he was president in 1878 ; was president the same year of the Editors ' and Publishers ' Association ; and from 1878 to the time of his death was one of the board of managers of the Leavenworth branch of the National Soldiers ' Home.

Lewis F. Atchison of The Washington Post began his story: " Joe Louis, the lethargic, chicken-eating young colored boy, reverted to his dreaded role of the ' brown bomber ' tonight "; Henry McLemore of the United Press called Louis " a jungle man, completely primitive as any savage, out to destroy the thing he hates.