Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

David M. Woodson to Abraham Lincoln, 11 February 18491
Carrollton Feby 11^th 1849.Hon, A LincolnDear Sir,
Our old friend Andrew M^cCallen of Hardin County writes me that he intends to apply for the office of Marshall for California. Should a bill pass organising a government there would it not be well to procure him if possible the office? Certainly no truer hearted friend or whig than M^cCallen can present an application for it. He has he informs me, been recommended by the Whig Members of the Legislature and I am sure that ^his^ appointment would give general satisfaction

I therefore take the liberty of recommending him and suggest that if it be not incompatable with a sense of duty, that you aid him in obtaining it.
Your friend trulyD. M. Woodson,2

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Marshal
California
1849
A M^cCallen strongly recommended by D M. Woodson

1David M. Woodson wrote the letter in its entirety.

2Andrew McCallen did not become marshal of California; Abraham Lincoln and Edward D. Baker instead endorsed McCallen for the position of register of the General Land Office at Shawneetown. McCallen received the appointment and held the job from June 1849 to May 1853.
Niles National Register (Philadelphia, PA), 6 June 1849, 1:1; Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1849 (Washington, DC: Gideon, 1849), 135; Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1851 (Washington, DC: Gideon, 1851), 139; Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1853 (Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong, 1853), 138; John W. Norton to Abraham Lincoln; Arthur Charles Cole, ed., The Constitutional Debates of 1847 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1919), 969.