James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Rhea, 4 May 1810 (Abstract)

§ From John Rhea

4 May 1810, Washington. Encloses a copy of his circular letter to his constituents.

RC (DLC); enclosure (DLC: Madison Collection, Rare Book Division). RC 1 p. Enclosure (3 pp.) is Rhea’s 20 Apr. 1810 printed letter to his constituents (reprinted in Cunningham, Circular Letters of Congressmen, 2:687–93), which quoted extensively from JM’s 29 Nov. 1809 annual message to Congress. Rhea was a Republican congressman from Tennessee, 1803–15 and 1817–23.

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    To James Madison from John Rhea, 4 May 1810 (Abstract)
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    Rhea, John
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    Madison, James
    Date
    4 May 1810

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    “To James Madison from John Rhea, 4 May 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0408. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 332.]

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