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Document 4331

ANDREW JACKSON and ROGER B. TANEY
Land business during peak times co-signed by Treasury Secretary eight weeks before his appointment to the position was rejected by the Senate.
Partly Printed DS: "Andrew Jackson" as President and "R.B. Taney" as Secretary of the Treasury, 1p, 17¾x14. Washington, 1834 April 29. In part: "Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity Diligence and Discretion of Joseph H. Larwill Esquire I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate Do Appoint him Receiver of Public monies for the District of Lands subject to sale at Tiffin, Ohio...during the term of four years from the twenty ninth day of May 1834 unless this Commission be sooner revoked by the President of the United States for the time being." Tiffin, in Seneca County, is about 40 miles southeast of Toledo, Ohio. At the time of this document, public land sales were about to reach their peak; some 25 million acres were sold in 1836 alone. Land sales constituted nearly one-half of the total revenue of the government. But issues of granting land haunted Jackson. There was excessive speculation and abuses associated with it, resulting in his issuing the Specie Circular in 1837. The Circular, which required government agencies to accept only gold and silver for payment on lands, caught speculators short as they were using "cheap" paper money. The Circular ended speculation but fueled the inflationary conditions that brought on economic panic that struck shortly before Jackson's term ended. Maryland Attorney General since 1827, ROGER BROOKE TANEY was appointed Jackson's Attorney General on December 27, 1831. President Jackson named Taney Secretary of the Treasury on September 24, 1833, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate on June 24, 1834, eight weeks after he signed this document. Taney was the first Cabinet appointee to be rejected by the Senate. Appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1835, the Senate rejected that appointment too. In 1836, Jackson named Taney Chief Justice to succeed John Marshall. A change in the makeup of the Senate resulted in Taney's confirmation; he served until his death in 1864. Mounted to heavy board, which reinforces tears at left and right margins (4 printed words of text are affected). Soiled, lightly foxed. Light shading from prior framing touches the "o" in Jackson.

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