David Rice Atchison As president pro tem of the Senate, when James
Polk's term expired, and Zachary Taylor refused to take the oath of
office (as March 4 was a Sunday), Atchison, being third in line, was
officially (though not constitutionally) the p...
During Wilson’s eight years as president, he implemented four
constitutional amendments, the most since the passage of the Bill of
Rights in 1791, including the income tax, the direct election of
senators, prohibition, and women’s suffrage. Good luck...
