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To John Jay from John Marshall, 22 December 1800

From John Marshall

Department of State Decr. 22d. 1800

Sir

The President, anxious to avail the United States of your services as chief Justice, has nominated you to the senate for that important office, now vacant by the resignation of Mr. Ellsworth.1

In the hope that you may be prevaild on to accept it, I feel peculiar satisfaction in transmitting to you the commission.2 With very much respect & esteem I am, Sir your Obedt. Servt.

J Marshall

His Excellency John Jay New York

ALS, ICN (EJ: 13400). Endorsed: “Secy of State, 22 Decr. 1800 / with Comn. of Ch. Justice.” PJMar, 6: 42. For JJ’s reply, see his letter to Marshall of 2 Jan. 1801, below.

1. For JJ’s appointment as chief justice, see JA to JJ, 19 Dec., and the editorial note “Jay Declines a Second Appointment as Chief Justice,” both above.

2. JJ returned the commission with his reply to Marshall. For the commission, see Commission of JJ as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 19 Dec. 1800, LbkC, DNA: RG 59, Misc. Permanent & Temporary Presidential Commission, 1789–1802, 380, (EJ: 13334).

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    To John Jay from John Marshall, 22 December 1800
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    “To John Jay from John Marshall, 22 December 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-07-02-0076. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 7, 1799–1829, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, p. 128.]

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