From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 April 1794

To the United States Senate

United States 3d april 1794

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate Albion Cox, to be Assayer for the Mint of the United States.1

Go. Washington

LB, DLC:GW.

1. Albion Cox had been working as the assayer for the U.S. Mint on a temporary basis since the spring of 1793 (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 141). The Senate approved Cox’s appointment on 4 April, and GW signed his commission on 5 April (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 , 149; JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 297).

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 April 1794
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate
Date: 3 April 1794

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 April 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0401. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 15, 1 January–30 April 1794, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 502.]

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