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Biography of David Rice Atchison
Name: David Rice Atchison
Birth Date: August 11, 1807
Death Date: January 6, 1886
Place of Birth: Frogtown, Kentucky, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: senator, lawyer
David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison (1807-1886), American lawyer and politician, was a leading Democratic senator during the 1850s. He advocated many unpopular causes, and his career reflected the rough and tumble of frontier politics.David Atchison was born in Frogtown, near Lexington, Ky., on Aug. 11, 1807. After graduating from Transylvania College in 1825, he studied law and was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1829. In 1830 he was admitted to the Missouri bar and established a successful law practice in the western part of the state. Between 1833 and 1838 Atchison rose from the rank of captain to major general in the Missouri militia.During 1833 and 1834 Atchison acted as legal defense for the persecuted Mormons in Missouri and with their support was elected as a Democrat to the state legislature. Although he opposed anti-Mormon Democratic policies, his vigorous support of Andrew Jackson and his opposition to the Bank of the United States made him a leader of the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…state elections, and led raids by "Border Ruffians" during the Kansas civil war.When the Civil War began, Atchison worked to bring about the secession of Missouri; he later organized a Missouri unit for Confederate military service. His lack of success caused him to leave Missouri for Texas. There he lived until 1867, when he returned to Missouri and settled permanently as a farmer, in political retirement. He died on Jan. 6, 1886. Further Reading The only biography of Atchison is William E. Parrish, David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Border Politician (1961), a judicious but highly sympathetic study of a man almost invariably maligned by scholars. Atchison's role in passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and his senatorial race against Benton are studied in P. Orman Ray, The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise: Its Origin and Authorship (1909). There is a discussion of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, vol. 2: A House Dividing, 1852-1857 (1947).
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