James Madison Papers

To James Madison from the Citizens of Knox County, Indiana Territory, 14 April 1812 (Abstract)

§ From the Citizens of Knox County,

Indiana Territory. 14 April 1812. Recommend to the president Henry Hurst, attorney at law, as a proper person to fill the vacancy on the supreme court of the territory occasioned by the death of Judge Vanderburgh. State that Hurst is better qualified to fill the appointment than any other person and that he would be as acceptable to the citizens as any other.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Hurst”). 1 p. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Indiana, 8:177. JM also received a one-page note from John Pope, dated 24 Apr. 1812, recommending Hurst for the vacancy (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17) and enclosing an 8 Apr. letter Pope had received from Judge Benjamin Parke making a similar recommendation (ibid.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Indiana, 8:175–76).

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    To James Madison from the Citizens of Knox County, Indiana Territory, 14 April 1812 (Abstract)
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    Knox County, Indiana Territory Citizens
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    Madison, James
    Date
    14 April 1812

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    “To James Madison from the Citizens of Knox County, Indiana Territory, 14 April 1812 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0334. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 321–322.]