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DAVID R. ATCHISON - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/17/1840 CO-SIGNED BY: G. W. DUNN - HFSID 67964
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DAVID R. ATCHISON - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/17/1840 CO-SIGNED BY: G. W. DUNN - HFSID 67964
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DAVID RICE ATCHISON
David Rice Atchison signs an autograph document.
Autograph Document Signed: "Atchison Atto fr Defd" as
Attorney for Defendant, 1p, 7½x8¾. No place, 1840 December 17.
Declaration in the case of Glasgow & others vs. James Allen. In full:
"And the said defendant comes and denies the wrong and injuries and says that
said Plaintiffs ought not to have and maintain their aforesaid action thereof
against him the said Defendant because he says that he did not undertake and
promise in manner and form as said Plaintiffs have thereof in their said
declaration complained against him and of this he puts himself upon the
country." Also signed: "G.W. Dunn". Docketed on verso by the
Court Clerk. David Rice Atchison served as U.S. Senator from Missouri
from 1843-1855. Polk's term as 11th U.S. President ended at the stroke of
midnight, March 3, 1849. President-elect Zachary Taylor refused to take the oath
of office on his Sabbath, Sunday, March 4, 1849. He took the presidential oath
on Monday, March 5, 1849, the same day Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore was
sworn in. When Polk's Vice President, George M. Dallas, resigned as President of
the Senate on Friday, March 2, 1849, Atchison was elected President Pro
Tempore of the U.S. Senate, a position he had held since 1846. Since Article
II of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare "what Officer
shall then act as President" in case of the "Inability, both of the President
and the Vice President", and since the President Pro Tempore of the Senate was
next in line to the Presidency, there are historians who insist that Atchison
was U.S. President for one day, March 4, 1849, and this is noted on his
tombstone. Slightly nicked at horizontal folds. Slight separations at folds, all
words intact. Lightly creased. Smudged at 1 letter of Dunn's signature and 1
word of his writing. Light show through of docket on verso at Atchison's
signature.
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DAVID R. ATCHISON G. W. DUNN
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