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Was David Atchison a President for a Day
A 1908 Missouri statue commemorates David Rice Atchison as the one day United States president on March 4 1849 though historians dispute the claim. The piece explains the sequence of Polk Taylor and Benton to show why Atchison’s presidency was unofficial and not legally binding. It also compares similar claims for Thomas Ferry and discusses the Continental Congress era and John Hanson.
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Elmo- Scott’ Watson
Western Newaypaper Union
United States
Plattsburg
David Rice Atchison
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Taylor
Congressional Globe
George M. Dallas
Polk
Senate
Thomas Hart Benton
Missouri
David R. Atchison
Dallas
Atchison
The
Directory
John Marshall
Suprem Preme Court
Mississippi River
Franklin Pierce
William R. King
Pierce
Cuba
Mississippi
Herbert Hoover
Frogtown
Fayette County
Kentucky
David Rice
Young Atchison
Liberty County
Platte County
Clinton County
Thomas White Ferry
Michigan
Henry Wilson
Ferry
O. W
Bélae
Philadelphia
Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes
Mackinac, Mich
National Soldiers’ Cemetery
Gettysburg
Congress
Congressional
Lincoln
Springfield
Wilson
CarolNever
United’ States
Continental Congress
United States of America
Maryland
John Hanson
Daniel Carroll
Samuel Huntington
Connecticut
Huntington
Samuel Johnston
North Carolina
Johnston
Thomas McKean
Delaware
Anson
George Washington
Washington
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Edmund C. Burnett
Institution
Division of Historical Research
Hanson
Burnett
Dads
Federal Constitut