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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, CO-SIGNED BY JAMES MADISON ("James Madison"), as Secretary of State, Washington, 18 November 1803. JAMES MONROE'S APPOINTMENT AS MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN. 1 page, large folio, on vellum, accomplished in a secretarial hand, paper seal in lower left corner, matted and framed (25 x 27¾ in.). Not examined out of frame.
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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, CO-SIGNED BY JAMES MADISON ("James Madison"), as Secretary of State, Washington, 18 November 1803. JAMES MONROE'S APPOINTMENT AS MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN. 1 page, large folio, on vellum, accomplished in a secretarial hand, paper seal in lower left corner, matted and framed (25 x 27¾ in.). Not examined out of frame.
THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY OF JEFFERSON, MADISON, AND MONROE ARE ALL JOINED TOGETHER IN THIS PIECE, as the President and Secretary of State authorize the appointment of James Monroe to become "Minister Plenipoentiary for the United States of America at the Court of his Britannic Majesty...and the said Office to Hold and exercise during the pleasure of the President..." That pleasure was tried in 1806, when Monroe negotiated a treaty with Great Britain and submitted it to Washington, only to have Jefferson reject it on the grounds that it did nothing to curtail British impressments of American sailors. The unhappy feelings that Monroe nursed against both Jefferson and Madison as a result, were partially assuaged when Madison made Monroe Secretary of State in 1812. He emulated his Virginia predecessors by moving from the State Department to the White House in 1816. A fine piece, associating three successive Presidents. (2)
THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY OF JEFFERSON, MADISON, AND MONROE ARE ALL JOINED TOGETHER IN THIS PIECE, as the President and Secretary of State authorize the appointment of James Monroe to become "Minister Plenipoentiary for the United States of America at the Court of his Britannic Majesty...and the said Office to Hold and exercise during the pleasure of the President..." That pleasure was tried in 1806, when Monroe negotiated a treaty with Great Britain and submitted it to Washington, only to have Jefferson reject it on the grounds that it did nothing to curtail British impressments of American sailors. The unhappy feelings that Monroe nursed against both Jefferson and Madison as a result, were partially assuaged when Madison made Monroe Secretary of State in 1812. He emulated his Virginia predecessors by moving from the State Department to the White House in 1816. A fine piece, associating three successive Presidents. (2)