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To James Madison from Israel Smith and Josiah Smith, 25 January 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Israel Smith and Josiah Smith

25 January 1802, Washington. Recommends John Wadsworth of Portland, Maine, to be librarian of Congress. States that he is “a young Gent: of competent Abilities & fair Character” and asks JM to propose him to Jefferson.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Wadsworth”). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson, “I. & J. Smith to mr. Madison. J. Wadsworth to be librarian.” Israel Smith of Vermont and Josiah Smith of Massachusetts were both members of the House of Representatives during the Seventh Congress, 1801–3. JM received another copy of this letter (ibid.) signed by Massachusetts congressmen Seth Hastings, Joseph B. Varnum, Richard Cutts, Manasseh Cutler, and William Shepard as well as New Hampshire congressman Abiel Foster and Rhode Island congressman Thomas Tillinghast.

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    To James Madison from Israel Smith and Josiah Smith, 25 January 1802 (Abstract)
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    Smith, Israel
    Smith, Josiah
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    Madison, James
    Date
    25 January 1802

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    “To James Madison from Israel Smith and Josiah Smith, 25 January 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0607. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 421.]