James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 9 October 1810 (Abstract)

§ From Orchard Cook

9 October 1810, Wiscasset. Urges appointment of Gideon Granger to the Supreme Court. Also informs JM that because of ill health he will not seek reelection to Congress. Peleg Tallman of Bath has been nominated by local Republicans for the Twelfth Congress.

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Granger”). 2 pp. Orchard Cook was a Republican representative from Massachusetts in the Ninth through Eleventh Congresses (1805–11).

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    To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 9 October 1810 (Abstract)
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    Cook, Orchard
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    Madison, James
    Date
    9 October 1810

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    “To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 9 October 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0719. [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, pp. 574–575.]

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