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Notes on Renominations and Nominations, 26 February 1805

Notes on Renominations and Nominations

[before 26 Feb. 1805]

Renominations still to be made.

Orleans. Wm. C. C. Claiborne late governor of the Misipi territory Governor of the territory of Orleans
 
[ James Brown of Kentucky Secretary of the territory of O.]
[ Ephraim Kirby of Connecticut } Judges of the Superior
court for
the terry. of O
John B. Prevost of New York
original nomn James Brown of Kentucky1
Dominic A. Hall of S.C. judge of the District court for the Orleans district.
Francis Joseph Le Breton D’Orgenoy of Orleans Marshal for the district of O.
Mahlone Dickerson of Pensva Attorney of the US. for the district of O.
William G. Garland of Orleans Naval officer for the port of N.O.
John Thibaut of Orleans Surveyor & Inspector for Bayou St. John in N.O.


Nominations

William Brown of Orleans, Collector for New Orleans in the terry. of O.
William Lyman of Massachusets Surveyor & Inspector for New Orleans in the terry of O.
 Reciever of public monies for lands at Saint Stephens in the Missipi territory.
John Graham of Kentucky late Secretary of legn to Madrid Secretary of the territy. of Orleans
 <Attorney for the US. in the State of Ohio.>
 <Minister Pleny. for the US. to the court of Madrid.>
 Governor of the Misipi terry.
Thomas Tingey of Columbia to be a Captain in the Navy.
Franklin Wharton of Pensylva, now Major in the Marine corps to be Colo. Commandant of the same vice Colo. Burrowes resigned.
James Bowdoin of Massachusets Min. Plen. of the US. at the court of Madrid.
George W. Erving of Massachusets Secretary of the legation to the court of Madrid.
Peter Kuhn junr. of Phila to be Consul, for the US. at the port of Genoa.
Tomson J. Skinner of Mass. to be Marshall for the district of Mass.
 
Benjamin Austin of Mass. to be Commr. of loans in Mass.
William Lyman of Massachusets to be Consul for the US. at London.
John Tapscot of Virginia2 to be Collector & inspector of the revenue for Yeocomico river in Virginia
William Bellinger Bullock of Georgia to be Atty for the US. in the district of Georgia. v. D. B. Mitchel resd.
William Creighton of Ohio to be Atty for the US. in the district of Ohio v. Mich. Baldwin resd
Edward Dewhurst of the island of St. Croix to be Consul for the US. at St. Croix.
Algernon Sidney Stanford to be of Maryld Collector and Inspector of Vienna in Maryld3
Ormond Tuley of N.C. to be Surveyor & Inspector of the revenue for the port of Slade’s creek in the district of Washington N.C. v. Henry Tuley resigned.
q. Porter Andrew junr. N.O. to be Inspector & Survr. of the port of N.O.

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 146:25395); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand, including brackets in text.

TJ compiled this list of candidates for appointments at different times from November 1804 into January 1805, making changes and additions as information came to him. The first list involved renominations of candidates who had been offered recess appointments to take effect on 1 Oct. with the official organization of Orleans Territory. Their names appeared also on the president’s ongoing list of appointments (see Vol. 43: Appendix I; Vol. 44: Appendix I). The second portion of the list consists of new nominations that TJ submitted to the Senate on 13 Nov., 30 Nov., and 11 Dec. 1804 and 28 Jan. and 26 Feb. 1805. The names do not appear in the chronological order of their nominations.

William Lyman, nominated on the 13th as surveyor and inspector for the port of New Orleans, informed the administration of his intent to move to London and requested the consulship there. He was nominated to the Senate for the consulship on 11 Dec. (Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 41 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 10 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , Sec. of State Ser., 8:355, 427; Lyman to TJ, 1 Dec. 1804 [see Appendix IV]).

John Tapscott (tapscot) was likely a relative of Martin Tapscott, who received the Yeocomico collectorship in December 1803 (Vol. 41:684n; Vol. 42:96).

Edward Dewhurst, nominated on 11 Dec. 1804, was recommended for the consulship at St. Croix in a petition signed by 19 Baltimore merchants, which had been enclosed in a letter of 25 Nov. from William MacCreery to Madison (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 3:235-8; petition endorsed by TJ: “Dewhurst Edwd. to be Consul St. Croix” and “rejected by Senate”). In a letter of 23 Feb. 1805 to Madison, Richard H. Wilcocks, who had previously solicited the consulship, announced that he was no longer able to move to the West Indies and that Dewhurst would make a suitable candidate (same, 3:239-41, endorsed by TJ: “Wilcocks Richd H. declines applicn for Consulship”; Abraham Bishop to TJ, 13 July 1804; TJ to the Senate, 11 Dec. 1804).

Recommendations for Algernon Sidney Stanford reached the administration in December, although the incumbent collector did not resign the position until 3 Jan. TJ likely interlined his name on the list sometime after that. Stanford and Ormond tuley, also recommended in December, were nominated to the Senate on 28 Jan. (see Gallatin to TJ, after 15 Oct. and 22 Dec. 1804).

TJ received a recommendation for the last candidate on the list, Andrew porter, Jr., on 1 Jan., but likely held off on submitting his nomination until he had Gallatin’s approval (see enclosure at William C. C. Claiborne to TJ, 25 Nov. 1804; Gallatin to TJ, 25 Feb.; TJ to the Senate, 26 Feb.).

1Nominee interlined in place of “Robert Williams of North Carolina.”

2Word interlined in place of “Maryland.”

3Preceding entry interlined.

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