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To James Madison from Aaron Lyle, 7 January 1813 (Abstract)

§ From Aaron Lyle1

7 January 1813, “Washington City.” “I take the liberty of Recommending James M. Riddle of Sommerset County Pa. as I believe a suitable caracture” to fill one of the two vacant territorial judgeships.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Riddle”). 1 p.; docketed in an unidentified hand, “recommends Mr. Riddle as Judge in Louisiana or Indiana Territories.”

1. Aaron Lyle (1759–1825) of Washington County, Pennsylvania, was a member of the state house of representatives and the state senate prior to serving as a Republican representative from Pennsylvania to the Eleventh and three succeeding Congresses, 1809–17.

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    To James Madison from Aaron Lyle, 7 January 1813 (Abstract)
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    7 January 1813

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    “To James Madison from Aaron Lyle, 7 January 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0473. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 563.]