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To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 February 1815 (Abstract)

From James Monroe, 3 February 1815 (Abstract)

§ From James Monroe. 3 February 1815, War Department. “I have the honor respectfully to propose for your approbation, the appointment of Simeon Knight, Captain in the 1st. Regiment of Infantry, as a Quarter Master General in the Army of the United States.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 107, LSP). 1 p. JM forwarded the nomination to the Senate on 7 Feb. 1815, and it was approved the same day (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 13B–A3; 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 2:616–17).

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    To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 February 1815 (Abstract)
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    3 February 1815

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    “To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 February 1815 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0490. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 555.]

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