Zachary Taylor becomes the twelfth President of…

November 1849 CE

Zachary Taylor becomes the twelfth President of the United States on March 4, 1849, but refuses to be sworn into office on a Sunday.

Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, is President de jure for a single day.

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