James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Henry Potter, 7 September 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Henry Potter

7 September 1802, Raleigh. Recommends John Lockhart for the position of marshal for North Carolina. “Of Mr. Lockhart’s politics I have no knowledge.… As to his qualification, there is no man in the State within my knowledge & recollection, who I think is better fitted for the discharge of the duties of Marshall than he is.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1801–9, filed under “Lockhart”). 2 pp. Potter was appointed a U.S. circuit judge by Jefferson in January 1802 and a U.S. district judge three months later, a position he held until his death in 1857 (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 , 1:401, 405, 418, 419; Wagstaff, Papers of John Steele, 1:451 n. 3).

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    To James Madison from Henry Potter, 7 September 1802 (Abstract)
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    Potter, Henry
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    Madison, James
    Date
    7 September 1802

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    “To James Madison from Henry Potter, 7 September 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0700. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 556–557.]