James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 16 December 1816

To the Senate

December 16th. 1816.

I Nominate, Joseph Philips, late of the Army of the United States, to be Secretary of the Illinois Territory.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A2). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM.

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 16 December 1816
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    Madison, James
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    16 December 1816

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 16 December 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0581. [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, p. 556.]

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