David Rice Atchison, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)

David Rice Atchison

American politician (1807–1886)

David Rice Atchison 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. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a…