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.

Time Period
Location
MC 1998.10, B2, F1
Origin
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr
Letter from James Buchanan to James McLanahan