1To James Madison from John Taylor, 15 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...appointed to fill the Senate seat of Stevens Thomson Mason, who died in May 1803, until a successor to Mason was elected in December 1803. Taylor also served a number of terms in the Virginia House of Delegates with JM in the 1780s, and in the 1798–99 session he introduced JM’s Virginia Resolutions to the legislature. In 1808, however, Taylor supported Monroe instead of JM for the presidency...