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From James Madison to Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found)

To Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found)

¶ To Henry Baldwin. Letter not found. Ca. 13 February 1821. Printed facsimile of RC cover sheet, addressed and franked by JM; postmarked 13 Feb. 1821 at Orange Court House. Offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder Catalog 64 [1988], item 32. Henry Baldwin (1780–1844), a Connecticut-born, Yale-educated, Pittsburgh lawyer, was half-brother to Abraham Baldwin and Ruth Baldwin Barlow. Baldwin served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1817–22, where he was chairman of the committee on manufactures, 1819–22. From 1830 until his death he was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (M. Flavia Taylor, “The Political and Civic Career of Henry Baldwin, 1799–1830,” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 24 [1941]: 37–50).

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    From James Madison to Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found)
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    13 February 1821

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    “From James Madison to Henry Baldwin, ca. 13 February 1821 (letter not found),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0207. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, p. 252.]