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Letter from James Buchanan to James McLanahan
Number of Pages:
6
Date:
June 22, 1842
Senator James Buchanan writes to James X. McLanahan, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, regarding how postmasters are appointed and removed, Pennsylvania politics, and the apportionment bill. "Now the power of removal rests with the President alone; and this he has already exercised," as Buchanan explains. Transcript included.
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Location:
MC 1998.10, B2, F1
Origin:
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr
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