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David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison
(August 11, 1807January 26, 1886) 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. He is best known for the claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been
Acting President of the United States
. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.
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