Missouri State Court Judges - David Rice Atchison, Isaac Parker, Warren E. Hearnes, Edward Bates, John Wesley Emerson, Waldo P. Johnson (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: David Rice Atchison, Isaac Parker, Warren E. Hearnes, Edward Bates, John Wesley Emerson, Waldo P. Johnson, Elias Higbee, Henry Carroll Timmonds, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., Charles D. Drake, Charles Breckenridge Faris, Selden P. Spencer, Samuel Treat, George F. Gunn, Jr., Aaron H. Conrow, Barbara Ann Crancer, Thomas Reynolds, Robert Wilson, Nanette Kay Laughrey, John Cummins Edwards, Max Bacon, William Robert Collinson, Morgan M. Moulder, Elmo Bolton Hunter, Samuel H. Woodson, Elmer Bragg Adams, William Medcalf Kinsey, Clyde S. Cahill Jr., Jean Constance Hamilton, Albert Alphonso Ridge, Amos Madden Thayer, Elijah Hise Norton, David Gregory Kays, Allen Alexander Bradford, John Keating Regan, Arnold Krekel, Charles Alexander Shaw, Gary A. Fenner, Charles B. Davis, Randolph Henry Weber, Fernando J. Gaitan Jr., E. Richard Webber, Henry Edward Autrey, Kimbrough Stone, Dean Whipple. Excerpt: David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807 - January 26, 1886) 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. He is best known for the claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been Acting President of the United States. Atchison was a prominent pro-slavery activist and Border Ruffian leader, deeply involved with violence against abolitionists and other free-staters during the "Bleeding Kansas" events. Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown (later Kirklevington), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky. He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic Senators (Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi). Atchison was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1829. In 1830 he...