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To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 5 December 1816

From William Harris Crawford

Thursday. 5th. Decer. 1816.

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & will thank him to delay his nomination1 to the Senate for the present if there is no impropriety in this course.

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. At a later date JM added an asterisk here, and at the foot of the letter wrote: “Mr. Crawford’s, he was acting under a recess appt of the Executive.” Crawford’s nomination to the Treasury Department was submitted to the Senate by James Monroe on 5 Mar. 1817 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 3:89).

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    To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 5 December 1816
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    “To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 5 December 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0559. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 541.]

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