James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Thomas W. Gilmer and Horace W. Bramham, 1 November 1824

From Thomas W. Gilmer and
Horace W. Bramham

Charlottesville 1st Novr. 1824

Dear Sir

By a resolution of the standing Committee for the county of Albemarle, we have been deputed, in the name of the people of our county, to solicit your attendance on Friday next at a public dinner to be given to General La Fayette at the University of Virginia. On behalf of our fellow-citizens, we assure you that it will afford us pleasure to unite with you in doing honor to this distinguished benefactor of our country. With great respect and esteem we have the honor to be your most obedient, humble servants

Thomas W. Gilmer1

Horace W. Bramham

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802–1844), a Charlottesville lawyer, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1829–31, 1832–34, 1835–36, 1839–40, and as governor of Virginia, 1840–41. Gilmer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1841 and served until his appointment as secretary of the navy in 1844. He was killed that same year in the explosion on board the U.S.S. Princeton (Swem and Williams, Register description begins Earl G. Swem and John W. Williams, eds., A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776-1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions (Richmond, 1918). description ends , 378).

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    To James Madison from Thomas W. Gilmer and Horace W. Bramham, 1 November 1824
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    Gilmer, Thomas W.
    Bramham, Horace W.
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    1 November 1824

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    “To James Madison from Thomas W. Gilmer and Horace W. Bramham, 1 November 1824,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0414. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 422.]