The Real 12th President of the United States

The David Rice Atchison Presidential Library is part of the Atchison County Historical Society Museum in the Santa Fe Depot in Atchison, Kansas featuring the story and artifacts of David Rice Atchison.

The David Rice Atchison World’s Smallest “unofficial” Presidential Library premiered in 2006 with the exhibit featuring Congressional Printings of Atchison’s Senate career, books that include his career and items that connect to our community’s other Presidential visitors and the Presidency in general. The three most noted parts of the Smallest Presidential Library said Taylor, are David Rice Atchison’s sidearm, his Whitney Navy .36 caliber revolver, the Daily National Intelligencer (Washington D.C. newspaper from March 10, 1849) that includes the mention of Atchison’s Presidency for a Day, and the mini-Hall-of-Presidents.

Get our brochure on the World's Smallest Presidential Library download pdf

See the CNN video on "The Man Who Was President for a Day" - click here to go to the CNN State of the Nation with Candy Crowley website.

Atchison County Historical Society

P.O. Box 201, 200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot,

Atchison, KS 66002

913-367-6238 • GoWest@atchisonhistory.org

Museum Hours - winter

Sunday - closed in January

Monday-Friday - 9 am - 5 pm

Saturday - 10 am - 4 pm

Admission - by donation

suggested donation

Adults $2.00

Seniors $1.50 - Students $1.00

Families $5.00

Groups - please call ahead to schedule guided tour and arrange special programming to meet your needs - Museum phone 913-367-6238.

See our Eagle in the Museum when you next visit.

Learn more about Eagles and hear more of

their calls from the

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

or visit the Decorah Eagle Webcam