James Madison Papers

From James Madison to John B. Prevost, 3 September 1804 (Abstract)

§ To John B. Prevost

3 September 1804, Department of State. “The President being desirous of availing the United States of your services as a Judge of the Superior Court for the Territory of Orleans; I have the pleasure to inform you that a commission for that purpose has been forwarded to New Orleans under cover to Governor Claiborne.”1

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). 1 p.

1. See JM to Claiborne, 30 Aug. 1804, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 7:655–56 and nn.

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    From James Madison to John B. Prevost, 3 September 1804 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Prevost, John B.
    Date
    3 September 1804

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    “From James Madison to John B. Prevost, 3 September 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0011. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 17.]

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