To James Madison from the General Assembly of Indiana, post–4 November 1816 (Abstract)
From the General Assembly of Indiana, post–4 November 1816 (Abstract)
§ From the General Assembly of Indiana. Post-4 November 1816. “The undersigned, Govenor, Lieutenant Govenor and members of the General Assembly, of the State of Indiana, beg leave to recommend, The Honble. Benjamin Parke, late a judge of the General Court of the late Territory of Indiana, as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Federal District judge for sd. state, when such office shall have been created.1
“The undersigned have adopted this course, with a full impression that such appointment will meet the approbation of the citizens of the state generally.”
RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Parke”). RC 2 pp. Undated; conjectural date assigned based on the fact that the letter was written some time during the first session of the Indiana General Assembly, which began on 4 Nov. 1816 and ended on 3 Jan. 1817. Signed by Jonathan Jennings, first governor of the state of Indiana, and thirty-nine others, all members of the state house of representatives and senate.
1. JM nominated Benjamin Parke to be district judge for Indiana on 28 Jan. 1817. The Senate postponed the nomination, and Parke was renominated for the position by President James Monroe on 6 Mar. 1817 (, 3:73, 91–92).