James Madison Papers

To James Madison from James Trecothick Austin, 14 February 1815

From James Trecothick Austin

Boston Feby 14: 1815

Sir.

My esteemed father in Law the late Vice President of the United States authorized me to expect from your Excellency a favorable consideration whenever the selection was to be made of a Comptroller of the Treasury.

Permit me in his name most respectfully to submit my wishes to your attention.1 With prof[o]und respect

James T Austin

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. For JM’s decision regarding the appointment, see Robert Wright to JM, 9 Feb. 1815, n. 2. For Austin’s reaction, see JM to Thomas Jefferson, 15 Jan. 1823, PJM-RS, description begins David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). description ends 2:628.

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    To James Madison from James Trecothick Austin, 14 February 1815
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    Austin, James Trecothick
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    Madison, James
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    14 February 1815

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    “To James Madison from James Trecothick Austin, 14 February 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0510. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 576.]