James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Scott and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)

From John Scott and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)

§ From John Scott and Others. December 1813. “Being apprised that there is a vacancy in the office of Brigadier General of the Militia in this Territory, we the undersigned members of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Missouri, beg leave to recommend to your Excellency, Henry Dodge Esqr. of St. Genevieve, as a proper person to fill the Said vacancy.”

RC (DNA: RG 107, LRUS, M-1816). 1 p. Signed by Scott and nine others. Undated; conjectural date assigned here based on JM’s nomination of Dodge for the position on 11 Jan. 1814. The Senate confirmed the appointment on 17 Jan. (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 2:450, 452).

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    To James Madison from John Scott and Others, December 1813 (Abstract)
    Author
    Scott, John
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    1–31 December 1813

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    “To James Madison from John Scott and Others, December 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 25 October 1813–30 June 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, pp. 72–73.]

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