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David Atchison's Bleeding Kansas

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Bleeding kansas was an outbreak of violence that broke out in the kansas-nebraska territory. And one of the people that participated in this act was David Atchison. He was the 12th president of the united states but for only 24 hours. It’s said to be that when polk ended his presidency that his vice president zachary taylor was going to be the president, but since he didn’t take the oath of sabbath, there wasn’t a president for 24 hours. But most people believe that it was him. But when he wasn’t being a president he was a lawyer for a buisness called “liberty”. Atchison was elected into the house of represenatives in 1834, and while in office he helped extend the land of the Missouri up to the Mississippi river. In December of 1845 Atchison
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