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Madison, James, 1751-1836 Gazette and American---Extra.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05784 Author/Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836 Place Written: Providence, Rhode Island Type: Broadside Date: 1815/12/09 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 54.5 cm, Width: 23.8 cm Order a Copy

This document is a newspaper extra dated Saturday morning, 9 December 1815. It includes a transcript of the Presidential State of the Union Address by James Madison. The speech was originally given in Washington, D.C. on 5 December 1815. Docketed on verso, "B.P. Robinson, Prov. R.I."

Madison, James, 1751-1836

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