From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 3 March 1797

To the United States Senate

United States
March 3d 1797.

Gentlemen of the Senate.

I nominate Anthony Walton White of New-Jersey to be Surveyor for the Port of New Brunswick and Inspector of the Revenue for the same.1

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

The Senate confirmed Anthony Walton White’s nomination on this date (see 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 , 231–32).

1. White served as surveyor at New Brunswick, N.J., until his resignation in 1802 (see Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 10 March 1802, in Jefferson Papers description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends , 37:52–53).

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 3 March 1797
Author: Washington, George
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Date: 3 March 1797

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 3 March 1797,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-21-02-0365. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 21, 22 September 1796–3 March 1797, ed. Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 792.]

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