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To James Madison from the Indiana Territorial Legislature, 21 October 1809 (Abstract)

§ From the Indiana Territorial Legislature

21 October 1809, Vincennes. Forwards resolution urging the reappointment of William Henry Harrison as territorial governor.1

Printed copy (National Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 1809). Signed by Gen. Washington Johnston, Speaker of the House, and Thomas Downs, president of the council.

1. JM reappointed Harrison for a second term of three years on 19 Dec. 1809 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 2:130).

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    To James Madison from the Indiana Territorial Legislature, 21 October 1809 (Abstract)
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    Indiana Territorial Legislature
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    Madison, James
    Date
    21 October 1809

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    “To James Madison from the Indiana Territorial Legislature, 21 October 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0037. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 26.]

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