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Two Americans Labeled President-for-a-Day Doubtful Honor
A Plattsburg statue marks David Rice Atchison as a one day president in 1849 with debates over succession. Historians cite the 1849 events and the later Ferry case, while Samuel Johnston of North Carolina briefly led Congress in 1781, yet no clear “President” title existed until Washington.
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Elmo Escott Watson
Wester
Union Inetv
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
Dulles
Atchison
Edi
Johny Marshall
Supreme Court
Mississippi River
Aklin Pierce
William R. King
Pierce
Cuba
Mississippi
Herbert Roover
Frogtown
Fayette County
Kentucky
David Rice
Young Atchison
Liberty County
Plate County
Congress
Aussouri
Thomas White Ferry
Michigan
Henry Wilson
Ferry
Hewes-Tilden
W. W. Belknap
Grant
Philadelphia
Hutherford B. Hayes
Hayes
Mackinac, Mich
National Soldiers’ Cemetery
Gettysburg
Congressional
Lincoln
Springfield
Wilson
Grand Haven
Thomas Kite Ferry
Samuel Johnston
North Carolina
Continental Congress
United States of America
Maryland
John Rawson
Daniel Carroll
Samuel Huntington
Connecticut
Huntington
Johnston
Dey Johnston
Thames McKean
Delaware
John Hanson
Hanson
George Washington
Washington
Continental’ Congress
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