Continental Congress Nomination as Minister to France, 9 December 1780
Continental Congress
Nomination as Minister to France1
Philadelphia, December 9, 1780. On this date John Sullivan2 nominated Hamilton “for the office of minister to the Court of Versailles.”3
, XVIII, 1138.
1. For background to this document, see Marquis de Lafayette to H, December 9, 1780, note 7 ( , II, 518–21).
2. Sullivan, a resident of New Hampshire, was appointed a brigadier general in the Continential Army on June 22, 1775, and was promoted to major general on August 9, 1776. He resigned his commission on November 30, 1779, and in 1780 he was a delegate to Congress.
3. The other nominees were John Laurens, Alexander McDougall, and Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., of Connecticut ( , XVIII, 1138). On December 11, 1780, Congress elected Laurens to be Minister to France ( , XVIII, 1141).