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U.S. PRESIDENT FOR A DAY ATCHISON, DAVID RICE. Signature ("David R. Atchison / Missouri"), as Senator, on a page presumably excised from an autograph album. Additionally signed by Hannibal Hamlin, Lew Cass, and Solomon W. Downs. Approximately 6x5 1/2 inches; newspaper clippings mounted to left margin at corners (not affecting signatures), edges trimmed, other signatures on verso, mounted at corners to a larger sheet. sold as is. Np, [1847-53]
Atchison (1807-1886) was a pro-slavery Senator from Missouri, who served as President pro tempore for one day while Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore waited to take the oath of office until the Sabbath day had ended.
