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Was David Atchison President for a Day Actually
A 1928 Missouri statue claims David Rice Atchison was President for one day on March 4 1849 but historians reject the notion as a constitutional oddity. The article traces similar one day claims regarding Thomas Ferry and Samuel Johnston, noting no true U S president held that title before Washington.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western
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
Supreme Court
James K. Might
Mississippi River
Franklin Pierce
William R. King
Pierce
Cuba
Mississippi
Herbert Hoover
Frogtown
Fayette County
Kentucky
David Rice
Liberty County
Platte County
Clinton County
Thomas White Ferry
Michigan
Henry Wilson
Ferry
Philadelphia
Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes
Mackinac, Mich
Dians
Michillimackinac
Grand Haven
Mich
Young Ferry
Elgin
Ill
Board of Supervisors
Ottawa County
State Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Hannival Hamlin
Maine
Republican State Central Committee
National Soldiers’ Cemetery
Gettysburg
Congress
Congressional
Lincoln
Springfield
Wilson
Samuel Johnston
North Caron
Maryland
John Hanson
Daniel Carroll
Samuel Huntington
Connecticut
Continental Congress
Huntington
North Carolina
Johnston
Thomas McKean
Delaware
Hanson
George Washington
Washington
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Edmund C. Burnett
Institution
Division of Historical Research
Burnett
United Sta