From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 13 March 1815

To Alexander J. Dallas

Washington 13th March 1815.

In pursuance of the authority vested in me by Law, I do hereby request and authorise you, during the absence of the Secy of War, to perform the Duties of that office.1

James Madison

RC (owned by Alexander D. Wainwright, Princeton, N.J., 1957). In a clerk’s hand, signed and dated by JM.

1. JM nominated William Harris Crawford as secretary of war on 2 Mar. 1815, and the Senate confirmed the appointment the following day (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 2:626–27). Crawford, however, had not yet returned from France, where he had been U.S. minister. He assumed the direction of the War Department shortly after his arrival in the United States in early August 1815 (Daily National Intelligencer, 3 Aug. 1815; Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser, 8 Aug. 1815).

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Title: From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 13 March 1815
Author: Madison, James
Recipient: Dallas, Alexander James
Date: 13 March 1815

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Cite as: “From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 13 March 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0090. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 80.]

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