James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Francis Brooke, 15 March 1803 (Abstract)

§ From Francis Brooke

15 March 1803, Fredericksburg. Returns the enclosed commission [not found] because acceptance would render him ineligible for a state Senate seat for which he is again a candidate.

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). 1 p. Brooke had been appointed as a commissioner of bankruptcy (see Jefferson’s list of appointments, n.d. [DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Jefferson”]).

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    To James Madison from Francis Brooke, 15 March 1803 (Abstract)
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    Brooke, Francis
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    Madison, James
    Date
    15 March 1803

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    “To James Madison from Francis Brooke, 15 March 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0499. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 421.]

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