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To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 29 December 1804

From Henry Dearborn,
with Jefferson’s Approval

War Department December 29th. 1804

Sir

I have the honor of proposing, for your approbation, Robert Lucas, as a Cadet in the Corps of Artillerists

With high respect & consideration I am, Sir, your Obt. Servt.

H. Dearborn

[Approval by TJ:]

Approved

Th: Jefferson

Dec. 29. 1804

RC (PHi: Daniel Parker Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “The President of the US”; endorsed by a clerk. PrC (same). FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP).

After receiving his appointment as a cadet, Robert Lucas rose to the rank of lieutenant. Although he resigned his commission in 1810, Lucas served in the infantry until his death in the War of 1812 (Heitman, Dictionary description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 645).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 29 December 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0267. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 258.]

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