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From James Madison to John B. C. Lucas (Abstract), 22 March 1805

§ To John B

C. Lucas. 22 March 1805, Department of State. “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your Services as a Judge of the Territory of Louisiana, I have the p<leasure> t<o> inclose your Commission.”1

RC (MoSHi); letterbook copy of enclosure (DNA: RG 59, Temporary Presidential Commissions). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. Lucas’s 12 Mar. 1805 commission is printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Louisiana–Missouri, 13:100–101.

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    “From James Madison to John B. C. Lucas (Abstract), 22 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-09-02-0171. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 9, 1 February 1805–30 June 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 167.]

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