David Rice Atchison
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David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807 – January 26, 1886) was a Missouri Senator from Missouri during the mid-19th century.
He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years.
Atchison served as a major general in 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, at 1838.
He is best known for the fact that for 24 hours — from March 4, 1849 to noon on Monday— he may have been Acting President of the United States.
During the "Bleeding Kansas" demonstrations, nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers dismiss this belief.
Early life
Atchison was born in Frogtown, Kentucky, which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky, and his wife. He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington. Five current Democrats senators were included in this class (Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George Wallace Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi). In 1829, Atchison completed law school and was admitted to the Kentucky bar.
Senate career
Atchison was named to the Senate in October 1843 to fill the void left by Lewis F. Linn's death. He was the first senator from western Missouri to serve in this role. He was the youngest senator from Missouri up to that time at 36 years old. In 1849, Atchison was re-elected to a full term on his own account.
Atchison was a hit among his Senate colleagues. When the Democrats took over the Senate in December 1845, they named Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him second in succession for the Presidency. When the Vice President was not present, he was also responsible for presiding over the Senate. He was a young man with low rank in the Senate for two years before being elected to such a position at 38.
Atchison resigned as President pro tempore in favour of William R. King in 1849. After being elected Vice President of the United States, the King returned the office to Atchison in December 1852. Atchison ruled as President pro tempore until December 1854.
Atchison, a senator from Atchison, was a zealous promoter of slavery and territorial expansion. He favors the secession of Texas and the Mexican War. Although both were Democrats, Atchison and Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's other senator, became adversaries and then adversaries. In 1849, Benton declared himself against slavery. Atchison defeated incumbent Benton for re-election in 1851.
Benton, who planned to confront Atchison in 1854, started to protest for territorial control of the area west of Missouri (now the states of Kansas and Nebraska) in order to bring the state west of Missouri (now the states of Missouri and Nebraska) so that it could be opened to dialogue. Atchison suggested that the area be unified and that the Missouri Compromise prohibiting slavery be abolished in favour of popular sovereignty. The settlers in each territory would vote on whether or not they will allow slavery under this scheme.
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who embodied this concept in November 1853, introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this belief at Atchison's request. In May 1854, the Act was passed and became law, establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Both Douglas and Atchison had hoped that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus keeping the number in the country's free states and slave states intact. In 1854, Atchison helped found Atchison, Kansas, as a pro-slavery settlement. He was named for him in the town (and county).
Although Southerners favored the prospect of settling Kansas, few migrated there. The majority of free-soilers preferred Kansas to Nebraska. In addition, pro-slavery protesters from across the North began to see Kansas as a warground and organized groups to encourage free-soil settlers to travel to Kansas to ensure that there are enough voters in both Kansas and Nebraska to allow them to enter as free states.
It seemed that if the Kansas Territorial legislature, which had been elected in March 1855, would be ruled by free-soilers and banning slavery. Atchison and his allies regarded this as a breach of faith. An enraged Atchison ordered pro-slavery Missourians to keep slavery by force and "kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district" if necessary. The infamous "Border Ruffians" recruited an enormous crowd of heavily armed Missourians. Atchison led 5,000 Border Ruffians into Kansas on the election day, March 30, 1855. They took over all voting places at gunpoint, cast tens of thousands of fraudulent votes for pro-slavery candidates, and established a pro-slavery commission.
The Federal government had nonetheless condoned the indignation. President Franklin Pierce shot Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder when he protested.
Despite this display of power, far more free-soilers than pro-slavery settlers immigrated to Kansas. In "Bleeding Kansas," there were continued raids and ambushes by both directions. Despite Atchison and the Ruffians' best attempts, Kansas refused slavery and then became a free state in 1861.
Charles Sumner of the epic "Crimes Against Kansas" address on May 19, 1856, Atchison's involvement in the insurgent, tortured, and killings in Kansas revealed Atchison. Sumner likened Atchison to Roman Senator Catiline, who betrayed his country in an attempt to overthrowrown the existing order, speaking in the flamboyant style he and others favored, lacing his prose with references to Roman history. Sumner published a book about the tortures and violence perpetrated by Atchison and his men for two days, complete with evidence by newspapers and letters of the time.
Atchison delivered his own address two days later, completely unaware that he was revealed on the Senate floor in such a manner. Atchison remarks in his address were to the Texas men he just met, recruited, and paid for. They are about to invade Lawrence Kansas. Atchison says the man promised to kill and "draw blood" and boasts of his flag, which was red in color for "Southern Rights" and the color of blood. The slave trade in Kansas would be "too blood." In this address, he stated that the primary aim of the attack was to prevent the newspaper in Lawrence from publishing anti-slavery content. In Kansas, Atchison's men had made it a crime to publish anti-slavery newspapers.
Atchison made it clear that the men will be "well compensated" and that they would be encouraged to loot the house after they invaded. Sumner's Crimes Against Kansas speech covered hundreds of thousands of tortures and killings, but that was after Sumner's hundreds of thousands of tortures and murders. In other words, Atchison's situation was about to get progressively worse since he had recruited men from Texas.
On March 3, 1855, Atchison's Senate term came to an end. He wished to return to another term, but the Missouri legislature was split between him and Benton, while the Whig minority ran for their own man. No senator was elected until January 1857, when James S. Green was first elected.
Atchison had intended that the First Transcontinental Railroad be built along the central route (from St. Louis to Missouri, Kansas, and Utah), rather than the southern route (from New Orleans to Texas and New Mexico). Naturally, his suggested route through Atchison was via Atchison.
