To James Madison from William Thomas and Others, 20 November 1810 (Abstract)
§ From William Thomas and Others
20 November 1810, Annapolis. Recommends either Elias Glenn or Thomas Beale Dorsey for district attorney of Maryland after the resignation of John Stephen.1
RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Glenn”). 2 pp. Signed by Thomas and five other members of the Maryland Senate. JM also received a letter recommending Glenn from Philip Reed, U.S. senator from Maryland, written the same day (ibid.; 2 pp.).
1. On 10 Dec. 1810, JM nominated Dorsey to be U.S. attorney for Maryland. When Dorsey resigned the post after little more than a year, JM nominated Glenn as his replacement ( , 2:156, 254).