James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Perrin Willis, 4 May 1816

From Perrin Willis

Washington May 4th: 1816

Dear Sir

As circumstances rendered it necessary for you to appoint Mr Hagner Accountant of the War Department,1 I hope and trust some other vacancy will occur which you may deem proper to confer on me.

My devotion to the interest of my Country during the many years I was in her service very much strengthens my claim to her patronage.

I do not choose to follow the example set by most applicants, of dilating my pretensions; for if they require to be stated they are so unimportant as also to require embellishment. I have the honor to be with high consideration Your most Obt: Servt:

Perrin Willis

RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.

1. JM nominated Peter Hagner to be an “additional” accountant in the War Department on 29 Apr. 1816 (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 , 3:52).

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    To James Madison from Perrin Willis, 4 May 1816
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    Willis, Perrin
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 May 1816

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    “To James Madison from Perrin Willis, 4 May 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0014. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 8–9.]

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