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Document 4747

ANDREW JACKSON and JOHN FORSYTH
Appointment of former U.S. Senator as U.S. Attorney for Illinois.
Partly Printed DS: "Andrew Jackson" as seventh President and "John Forsyth" as Secretary of State, 1p, 16x10¾. On vellum. Washington, 1835 February 27. On vellum. 2¼-inch diameter paper seal affixed at bottom left. In part: "Know ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity, Ability & Learning of David J. Baker of Illinois, I have Nominated, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate do appoint him Attorney of the United States in & for the District of Illinois and do authorize and empower him to execute & fulfil the duties of that Office according to Law, And to have and to hold the said Office, with all the powers, privileges, & emoluments to the same of right appertaining, unto him...for the term of four years from the second day of March...." Signed on verso: "Nathl Pope" as Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Illinois. Pope attests to giving the oath of office to Baker on April 15, 1835. United States District Attorneys have four-year terms and are appointed by the President. They are responsible to the Attorney General. DAVID JEWETT BAKER (1792-1869) was a Democrat and staunch Jackson supporter. Baker was the Probate Judge of Randolph County, Illinois from 1827 to 1830 and filled the Senate vacancy left by the death of Senator John McLean. In his brief tenure in the 21st Congress (November 12-December 11, 1830), Baker carried through the important measure of selling public lands to actual settlers in tracts of 40 acres. He served as District Attorney for Illinois from 1833 to 1841 and resumed his law practice after being District Attorney. JOHN FORSYTH was named to succeed Louis McLane as Jackson's Secretary of State on June 27, 1834 and assumed the position on July 1. He had previously been elected as Attorney General of Georgia and the state's Republican Representative to Congress (1813-1818). In 1818, Forsyth was elected to the U.S. Senate but resigned to become Minister to Spain (1819-1823). He returned to Congress in 1823, resigning to become Governor of Georgia (1827-1829). Forsyth returned to the Senate as a Jacksonian Democrat before his appointment as Secretary of State. He continued in that position under Jackson's successor Martin Van Buren until his death in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 1841. Yellowed in areas touching both signatures. Lightly creased, one just touches the "d" in Andrew. Folds, three pinhead-size holes at blank horizontal fold. Light ink transference in blank areas from folding.

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