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    <title>Philip Ricard Fendall papers, 1799-1871</title>
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    <namePart>Fendall, Philip Ricard</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1794-1868</namePart>
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  <abstract>Professional and family correspondence, receipts, lists, and other papers relating to Fendall's activities on behalf of the Whig Party and William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, his opposition to Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, his work as an editor (under the auspices of the Library of Congress) of the Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (4 volumes; 1865), and his legal career in Alexandria, Va., and as U.S. district attorney for the District of Columbia (1841-1845, 1849-1853).  Correspondents include Albert Gallatin Brown, Joseph Henry, Edmund J. Lee, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, and George Watterston.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, editor, and public official.  Editor, under the auspices of the Library of Congress, of the Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (4 volumes; 1865).</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Collection related to the Library of Congress Archives.</note>
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      <namePart>Brown, Albert Gallatin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1880</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Harrison, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1773-1841</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Henry, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1878</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lee, Edmund Jennings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1877</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Madison, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1836</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taylor, Zachary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1850</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Watterston, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1783-1854</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Whig Party (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Alexandria</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public prosecutors</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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