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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriDavid Rice ATCHISON
(1807-1886)
Senate Years of Service:
1843-1855Party: DemocratATCHISON, David Rice, a
Senator from Missouri; born in Frogtown, Ky., August 11, 1807;
attended Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; studied law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Liberty, Clay County,
Mo., in 1829; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the
State house of representatives in 1834, and again in 1838;
appointed judge of the Platte County circuit court in 1841;
appointed and subsequently elected in 1843 as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Lewis F. Linn; reelected in 1849, and served from October 14, 1843,
to March 3, 1855; President pro tempore of the Senate (Twenty-ninth
through Thirty-third Congresses); chairman, Committee on the
Militia (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs
(Thirtieth through Thirty-second Congresses); resumed the practice
of law; died at his home near Gower, Clinton County, Mo., January
26, 1886; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Plattsburg, Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Atchison, Theodore. ‘David R. Atchison, A
Study in American Politics.’ Missouri Historical
Review 24 (July 1930): 502-15; Parrish, William E. David
Rice Atchison of Missouri: Border Politician Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1961.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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