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From James Madison to the Senate, 29 May 1813

To the Senate

May 29. 1813

The Swedish Government having repeatedly manifested a desire to interchange a public Minister with the U. States, and having lately appointed one with that view, and other considerations concerning to render it advisable at this period, to make a correspondent appointment,

I nominate Jonathan Russell of Rhode Island, to be Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. States to Sweden.1

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 13B-A1).

1. On 9 July 1813, by a vote of twenty-two to fourteen, the Senate resolved that “it is inexpedient, at this time, to send a Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden.” JM renominated Russell for the same post on 14 Jan. 1814 and gained the Senate’s consent, sixteen to fourteen, on 18 Jan. (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 2:384, 452, 454).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 29 May 1813,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0335. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 8 February–24 October 1813, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Anne Mandeville Colony, Mary Parke Johnson, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 354.]

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