Senator David Rice Atchison is buried beneath a monument that repeats the long-running claim that he was 'president for one day' during the 1849 presidential transition. Historians do not regard him as an actual U.S. president, but the story remains one of Missouri's most durable political-history oddities.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura