From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 20 May 1796

To the United States Senate

United States May 20th 1796.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate Oliver Bowen, of Georgia, to be Marshal of the district of Georgia in the room of Thomas Glasscock, resigned.1

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

1. The Senate postponed action on Oliver Bowen’s nomination on 21 May before consenting on 24 May (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 210–11; see also Bowen to GW, April 1789).

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 20 May 1796
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate
Date: 20 May 1796

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 20 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0125. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 177.]

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