Contains Letter
Written From: R.B. Taney; Secretary of the
Treasury
Letter
Dated: 14
February 1834
Addressed
To: Honorable
William Hendricks, U.S. Senate
Envelope: Addressed
to David W. Dailey, Esq.
Charlestown,
Ind
Postmarked: "Free" Washington
City
Envelope
penned by: William Hendricks, U.S.
Senator,
Letter in
possession of, and generously contributed to this
website by David James.
Letter
transcription & biographical notes by P.
Davidson-Peters (2004).
Any errors are therefore the result of my own
deficiencies and interpretations.
Brackets
indicate uncertainty of word
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Treasury Department
14 February 1834
Sir,
I have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of yesterday, recommending Mr. Daily to an
appointment in a Land Office, and I have to say
to you, that, at the proper time, it shall be
respectfully considered.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servt.
R.B. Taney
Secretary of the Treasury
Hon’ble William Hendricks, U.S. Senate
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| Biographical
Notes: David W. Daily
was born in 1798 in Charlestown, Clark Co.,
Indiana. He was the son of Philip Daily and Mary
(Wise). In 1818, he married Mary A. Shirley and
they became the parents of eleven children. The
older sons William H. and David served in the
Mexican War, and the younger sons Philip, Thomas,
and Seth, served in the Civil War - all from
Indiana regiments.
Roger
B. Taney, Secretary of the U.S.
Treasury, was born in Calvert Co., Maryland. He
studied law and was elected at age twenty-two to
the House of Delegates. In 1806, he married Anne
Phebe Charlton Key, sister of Francis Scott Key
and in 1816 was elected to the Maryland State
Senate. He served as the 12th Secretary of the
Treasury 1833-1834 and in 1836, Jackson in
gratitude for Taney's actions against the Second
Bank of the United States, appointed him Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court. He served until his
death in 1864.
William
Hendricks, born in Ligonier Valley,
Westmoreland Co., PA in 1782, was a Democrat and
member of Indiana territorial House of
Representatives from 1813-14; a U.S.
Representative from Indiana at-large, 1816-22;
Governor of Indiana, 1822-25; and U.S. Senator
from Indiana between 1825-1837. He died in
Madison, Jefferson Co., Indiana in 1850.
Hendricks County, Indiana was named in his honor.
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