James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Steuben Smith, 28 June 1816

From William Steuben Smith

Newyork 28. June 1816.

Sir,

A vacancy having occurred in the Office of Marshal of this District, by the decease of the late Marshal, if a disposition of that Office has not been made by Your Excellency, I would sollicit the exercise of your prerogative in my favour. The Zeal which would be exercised might be all that could counterbalance any deficiency of talent, but with that every occasion should be seized to manifest the devoted love of his Country and support of its Government, administered upon the principles which have guided its helm for the last sixteen years. With the highest respect I am Your Excellency’s most devoted humble Servant

W.S. Smith1

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Smith, William S.”).

1. William Steuben Smith (1787–1850), the son of William Stephens Smith and Abigail Adams Smith, was the nephew of John Quincy Adams (DMDE description begins The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, ed. Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2004), http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/default.xqy. description ends , glossary).

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    To James Madison from William Steuben Smith, 28 June 1816
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    Smith, William Steuben
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    Madison, James
    Date
    28 June 1816

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    “To James Madison from William Steuben Smith, 28 June 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0134. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 119.]