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On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the ...
President James Madison approved $23,950 of appropriated money from Congress to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library. Jefferson had 6,487 volumes. It came after the British torched the United States ...
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