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To James Madison from Alexander Cochrane and Others, Ca. July–November 1809 (Abstract)

From Alexander Cochrane and Others, Ca. July–November 1809 (Abstract)

§ From Alexander Cochrane and Others. Ca. July–November 1809. “We the Subscribers, inhabitants of that part of Washington City near the Navy Yard, conceiving the appointment of an additional Justice of the Peace as essentially necessary for the preservation of Harmony and the facility of business, do under these impressions respectfully recommend for that office Mr. Henry M Queen as a Gentleman well known and perfectly qualified to fill it.”1

RC (DLC). 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Cochrane and twenty-six others. Undated; conjectural date assigned based on evidence in n. 1.

1. Queen received a commission as justice of the peace for Washington County, D.C., while the Senate was in recess from 29 June through 26 Nov. 1809. His appointment was confirmed on 26 Dec. 1809 (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 2:128, 130, 133; Annals of Congress, description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends 11th Cong., 2d sess., 473).

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    To James Madison from Alexander Cochrane and Others, Ca. July–November 1809 (Abstract)
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    Cochrane, Alexander
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    Madison, James
    Date
    July–November 1809

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    “To James Madison from Alexander Cochrane and Others, Ca. July–November 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0535. [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, pp. 618–619.]