Circular Letter with Republican Electoral Ticket for 1816.

• imprint_number: 1816.047
• title: Circular. To the corresponding committees for promoting the election of the Republican candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States. Richmond, August 22d, 1816. Gentlemen ... [signed] William Brockenbrough, Francis Taliaferro Brooke, John Campbell, John Coalter, Charles Everett, Alexander McRae, John Preston, Thomas Ritchie, John Robertson, Andrew Stevenson, and William Wirt.
• sequence_number: 46
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Ritchie, Trueheart, and DuVal
• author: Democratic-Republican Party in Virginia. Central Corresponding Committee.
• notes: Letter circulates names of electors pledged to James Monroe for President and to Daniel D. Tompkins for Vice President in the 1816 election; signers represent the membership of the so-called Richmond Junto at this time.
  Sheet lacks colophon; as Ritchie was both a member of the committee and a signers of this letter, this title certa9inly issued from his press office, so the attribution here.
  
  
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  • Philip DuVal
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  • Thomas Ritchie
  • Daniel Trueheart

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