From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 19 May 1796

To the United States Senate

United States May 19th 1796.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate

James Simpson, at present Consul of the United States at Gibraltar, to be their consul for the Kingdom of Morocco

John S. M. Matthieu, to be their Consul at the City of Naples.

Francis Coffyn, to be their Consul at Dunkirk

James Holmes, to be their Consul at Belfast in the Kingdom of Ireland.1

George Knox, to be their Consul at Kingston upon Hull in England.2

Go: Washington

LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.

The Senate received these nominations on this date and approved them on 20 May (Senate Executive Journal, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends 209).

1. For the consulships at Morocco, Naples, Dunkirk, and Belfast, see Report on Foreign Affairs, 12 May, printed as an enclosure with Timothy Pickering to GW, same date.

2. See Pickering to GW, 18 May, and n.2 to that document.

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 19 May 1796
Author: Washington, George
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Date: 19 May 1796

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 19 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0116. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 162–163.]

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