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Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [1 January] 1805

Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson

[1 January 1805]

⟨Mr.⟩ Levy

Mr. Pinkney

Judge Livingston

Duvall.

Granger.

Rodney.

J.T. Mason

Dallas1

RC (DLC: Jefferson Papers). Undated; date assigned here on the basis of Jefferson’s docket: “Departmt. State. recd. Jan. 1. 05. / Atty Genls.”

1. Jefferson had asked members of his cabinet to suggest possible candidates to replace Levi Lincoln as attorney general (see Henry Dearborn to Jefferson, 2 Jan. 1805, Robert Smith to Jefferson, 2 Jan. 1805, and Albert Gallatin to Jefferson, 3 Jan. 1805, DLC: Jefferson Papers).

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    1 January 1805

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    “Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [1 January] 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0456. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 439.]

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