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Population (2000): 10232 Housing Units (2000): 4220 Land area (2000): 6.829527 sq. miles (17.688394 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.380620 sq. miles (0.985800 sq. km) Total area (2000): 7.210147 sq. miles (18.674194 sq. km) FIPS code: 02900 Located within: ...
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Atchison may refer to: Places In the United States: Atchison, California Atchison, Kansas , a city Atchison County, Kansas Atchison County, Missouri People David Rice Atchison , US senator from Missouri Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931), American chemist ...
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I usually make sure a guy likes me before I drop the Atchison Tyler bomb on them.
How we talked Atchison, and dreamed Atchison, for the next fifty hours!
We have, this very afternoon, heard bitter denunciations of Brooks in Washington, and Titus, Stringfellow, Atchison, Jones, and Shannon in Kansas--the battle-ground of slavery.
Enjoy the rest of your ride on the good old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
It Had to Be You followed by On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
Tompkins, of Boston, had explained at elaborate length those working principles, by the due and careful maintenance of which the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad not only extended its territory, increased its departmental influence, and transported livestock without starving them to death before the day of actual delivery, but also had for years succeeded in deceiving those passen84 F.
Tompkins, of Boston, had explained at elaborate length those working principles, by the due and careful maintenance of which the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad not only extended its territory, increased its departmental influence, and transported livestock without starving them to death before the day of actual delivery, but also had for years succeeded in deceiving those passen84 F.
Atchison was president pro tempore of the Senate then, and under the law in force at the time the succession would have devolved upon him, but he wasn't sworn in, he didn't do anything presidential (I believe he took a nap), and nobody to this day is really sure if he was president or not.
But no uncertainty attaches to the motives of Senator Atchison and the leaders of the Calhoun section of the Democratic party.