David Rice Atchison
United States Senator from Missouri (1807-1886) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 78
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.
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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. 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.
