NATHANIEL PITCHER TALLMADGE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/28/1840

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NATHANIEL PITCHER TALLMADGE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/28/1840 - HFSID 169420
NATHANIEL P. TALLMADGE.
ALS:
"N.P. Tallmadge"
as U.S. Senator from New York
,
with integral address leaf addressed and franked
"Free/N.P. Tallmadge/C.G. Griswold, Esq./Montgomery-/Essex County/Va".
Faint postmark, 1p, 8x9-7/8.
Poughkeepsie,
1840 August 28.
To C.G. Griswold, Esq.
In full:
"I have just returned from a tour of duty, and find your letter of Aug. 7th. I have enclosed it to Genl Rufus King of Albany with request that he will furnish you such information as may be in his power. My time is constantly occupied - and I am now about starting on my tour of duty & shall be on the wing till the time of the election. Silas M. Stilwell resides in the City of New York & would very cheerfully give you any aid in his power - I do not know the address of the other gentlemen. Excuse my haste, as I am about to leave for a long campaign.
NEW YORK IS SAFE, BY A LARGE MAJORITY FOR HARRISON
."
General Rufus King
was Adjutant-General of New York.
Silas M. Stilwell
was chairman of the
Board of Aldermen of New York City
and went with William H. Harrison to Washington after he was
elected President in 1840
.
He was
offered a cabinet post but declined
. President Tyler appointed Stilwell U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York
. TALLMADGE WAS RIGHT ABOUT NEW YORK. In the November 3, 1840, election, Harrison won New York's 42 electoral votes
and 18 other states for a total of 234 to incumbent President Van Buren's 60 electoral votes and seven states.
Tallmadge served in the U.S. Senate
as a Democrat from 1833 to 1844 when he resigned,
having been appointed
Governor of Wisconsin Territory
by President Tyler, a Democrat elected as a Whig with Harrison in 1840. He was removed from office
by President Polk, a Democrat, in 1845.
Tallmadge returned to Poughkeepsie, converted to spiritualism and devoted himself to writing religious tracts. Mounting stains on verso. Usual folds, one vertical through "Ta" of signature, lightly creased, light show through of seal, overall fine appearance.
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