To James Madison from Nathan Lufborough, 28 January 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Nathan Lufborough1

28 January 1802, Comptroller’s Office. At Mr. Payne’s request, recommends him for a recent vacancy in the State Department.2 Commends his handwriting, copying skills, and general competence.

RC (DLC). 1 p.

1. Nathan Lufborough was a Washington landowner and for many years a clerk in the Comptroller’s Office; JM nominated him to be a magistrate for the District of Columbia on 6 Feb. 1810 (Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 9 [1907]: 228, 24 [1922]: 1–4; John Mason and others to JM, 1 Feb. 1810, PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984—). description ends , 2:217; Lufborough to JM, 26 Sept. 1814 [DLC]).

2. Hazen Kimball had resigned his State Department clerkship on 14 Nov. 1801, but Payne does not appear to have been appointed to the position (JM to Speaker of the House of Representatives, 30 Mar. 1802, enclosure [DNA: RG 233, Reports and Communications from the Secretary of State, 7A-E1.1]).

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Title: To James Madison from Nathan Lufborough, 28 January 1802 (Abstract)
Author: Lufborough, Nathan
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 28 January 1802

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Nathan Lufborough, 28 January 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0620. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 427.]

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