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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, TO SECRETARY OF WAR BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, Washington, D.C., 14 February 1837. 1 page, 8vo, 195 x 130mm. (7 1/2 x 5 in.), upper left corner of second leaf torn away (not affecting text), integral address leaf in Jackson's hand.
Three weeks before leaving the White House at the end of his second term, President Jackson directs a request to his friend and Secretary of War: "My mind was so much occupied with various subjects today, that I forgot to name to you the medal for Gen[era]l Riply -- he called today, [and] is to call tomorrow on me; will you have the goodness to have [an] inquiry made of those who are charged with attention to the resolution of Congress on this subject, when it will be ready for delivery, that I may make known to him the progress; and if any thing, what had delayed its completion..."
Benjamin F. Butler (1795-1858) had been a law partner of Martin Van Buren and served as Jackson's Attorney General from 1833, adding to it the duties of acting Secretay of War in the final months of Jackson's administration (October 1836-March 1837).
Three weeks before leaving the White House at the end of his second term, President Jackson directs a request to his friend and Secretary of War: "My mind was so much occupied with various subjects today, that I forgot to name to you the medal for Gen[era]l Riply -- he called today, [and] is to call tomorrow on me; will you have the goodness to have [an] inquiry made of those who are charged with attention to the resolution of Congress on this subject, when it will be ready for delivery, that I may make known to him the progress; and if any thing, what had delayed its completion..."
Benjamin F. Butler (1795-1858) had been a law partner of Martin Van Buren and served as Jackson's Attorney General from 1833, adding to it the duties of acting Secretay of War in the final months of Jackson's administration (October 1836-March 1837).