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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Benton declared himself to be against slavery in 1849, and in 1851 Atchison allied with the Whigs to defeat Benton for re-election.
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.
Atchison then resigned from the army over reported strategy arguments with General Price and moved to Texas for the duration of the Civil War.
Atchison, Kansas, is named for him.
There is also a memorial for Atchison located in the Landsdowne area of Lexington, Kentucky.
Places named for David Atchison
During the senate adjournment, the issues of the railroad and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise became entangled in Missouri politics as Atchison campaigned for re-election against the forces of Thomas Hart Benton.
Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.
* Taos, was a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's passenger train, the Super Chief
Statue of " President for a Day " David Rice Atchison at the Clinton County Courthouse
He was commissioned to paint posters for the railway company, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for U. S. Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri.
The city of Atchison is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.
Knightsen was founded in 1898 when it became a stop for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Everest was named in honor of Colonel Aaron S. Everest, an attorney for the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad and represented Atchison County in the Kansas Senate.
Land for the City of Attica was purchased in late June, 1884 and became the end of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.
In 1872 the western terminal for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the railhead for the Chisholm Trail were established here.
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Missouri Sen. David Atchison announced that he would support the Nebraska proposal only if slaveholders were not banned from the new territory.
The two sisters, Amelia and Muriel ( she went by her middle name from her teens on ), remained with their grandparents in Atchison, while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters in Des Moines.
In 1901 the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, later bought by the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe Railway, began purchasing rights-of-way and designating new townsites for a proposed railroad.
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.
A group of " Harvey Girls ", new waitresses for Fred Harvey's pioneering chain of Harvey House restaurants, travels on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to the western town of Sandrock.
* July 8 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway equips its El Capitan with new, high-level cars from Budd.
They were built during 1937 and 1938 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway for a new generation of diesel-powered streamlined trains.
* March 1 – March 8-the train receives a complete overhaul, including a new coat of paint, at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway shops in San Bernardino.
In the evening, Price sent ex-Senator and now General David Rice Atchison from Lexington to help these men, mostly new recruits, cross the river near Liberty.
Burlington Northern merged with Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1995, and the name of the new railroad became Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Holliday was named a director and president of the new railroad on September 17, 1860, which was renamed in 1863 to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
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