James Madison Papers

James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816

To the Senate

January 15 th. 1816

I nominate

Joseph Bartholemew, of Indiana Territory, to be Major General in the Militia of the same Territory.

James Dill, of Indiana Territory to be a Brigadier General of Militia of the said Territory.

Walter Wilson, of Indiana Territory, to be a Brigadier General of Militia in the same Territory.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. On 16 Jan. 1816 the nominations were referred to the Committee of Military Affairs for a report (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends 3:24).

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    James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816
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    Madison, James
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    15 January 1816

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    “James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0159. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 163.]

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