James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Fowler and Others, 28 March 1806 (Abstract)

From John Fowler and Others, 28 March 1806 (Abstract)

§ From John Fowler and Others. 28 March 1806, Washington. “Understanding that an appointment for the Consulate of Tunis is under consideration of the executive we beg leave to recommend to your notice Doctor Wm. C. Smith1 as a Character well calculated to fill that important Station.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Smith”). 1 p.; signed by John Fowler, Leonard Covington, Abram Trigg, George Clinton Jr., and John Dawson. All congressmen, Dawson and Trigg were from Virginia, Covington from Maryland, Fowler from Kentucky, and Clinton from New York.

1. This was probably army physician William C. Smith who was stationed at Fort Dearborn (History of Medicine and Surgery and Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago [Chicago, 1922], 13).

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    To James Madison from John Fowler and Others, 28 March 1806 (Abstract)
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    Fowler, John
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    Madison, James
    Date
    28 March 1806

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    “To James Madison from John Fowler and Others, 28 March 1806 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0351. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 435.]

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