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John Tyler (1841-1845)
TYLER, John (1790-1862). Autograph letter signed in full ("John Tyler"), as President, to Silas Reed (1807-1876), Williamsburg, Virginia, 28 October 1841. 1 page, 4to, original envelope, addressed in Tyler's hand and with his Presidential free-frank ("J. Tyler"), stamped FREE.
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TYLER, John (1790-1862). Autograph letter signed in full ("John Tyler"), as President, to Silas Reed (1807-1876), Williamsburg, Virginia, 28 October 1841. 1 page, 4to, original envelope, addressed in Tyler's hand and with his Presidential free-frank ("J. Tyler"), stamped FREE.
THE STIGMA OF SENATORIAL NON-CONFIRMATION. A fine Tyler Presidential ALS with free frank, consoling Reed for his rejection by the Senate of his appointment as federal surveyor of Illinois and Missouri: "All that I can say...is that I sincerely regretted your defeat before the Senate; but am not able to assign any particular cause for it. Nothing has been communicated to me at any time to alter my good opinion of you. What the Senate may have had before it, or on what view they acted I am wholly unable to say." After quickly submitting a new name in place of Reed, Tyler went back to the Congress in March 1842, saying that its earlier rejection "was founded in a Misapprehension of facts, which, while it deprived the public of the services of a useful officer, left [Reed] to suffer a considerable degree of injustice in his reputation. After mature reflection upon all the circumstances of his case, and particularly of facts which have become known since his rejection, I have felt it my duty to submit his nomination for the same office anew to the Senate for its advice and consent." Reed was eventually confirmed, but later found himself at odds with Tyler when Civil War broke out 20 years later. Reed, then in Missouri, remained a staunch Union man and Grant later made him surveyor general of the Wyoming Territory.
THE STIGMA OF SENATORIAL NON-CONFIRMATION. A fine Tyler Presidential ALS with free frank, consoling Reed for his rejection by the Senate of his appointment as federal surveyor of Illinois and Missouri: "All that I can say...is that I sincerely regretted your defeat before the Senate; but am not able to assign any particular cause for it. Nothing has been communicated to me at any time to alter my good opinion of you. What the Senate may have had before it, or on what view they acted I am wholly unable to say." After quickly submitting a new name in place of Reed, Tyler went back to the Congress in March 1842, saying that its earlier rejection "was founded in a Misapprehension of facts, which, while it deprived the public of the services of a useful officer, left [Reed] to suffer a considerable degree of injustice in his reputation. After mature reflection upon all the circumstances of his case, and particularly of facts which have become known since his rejection, I have felt it my duty to submit his nomination for the same office anew to the Senate for its advice and consent." Reed was eventually confirmed, but later found himself at odds with Tyler when Civil War broke out 20 years later. Reed, then in Missouri, remained a staunch Union man and Grant later made him surveyor general of the Wyoming Territory.