To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1803

From Henry Dearborn

War Department
Novr. 22d. 1803

Sir,

I have the honor to propose Edmund Hayward of Maryland & James Lanier of Kentucky for Surgeons Mates, and Reuben Smith & Thomas A. Smith of Georgia for 2d. Lieutenants in the Corps of Artillerists and James Logan of Kentucky for an Ensign of the 2d. Regiment of Infantry—

With respectfull consideration I am your Obedt. Servt.

H. Dearborn

RC (DLC); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 24 Nov. and “Nominations” and so recorded in SJL. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP).

honor to propose: TJ sent these nominations to the Senate on 9 Dec. The Senate approved the commissions on 15 Dec. (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:459-60).

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Title: To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1803
Author: Dearborn, Henry
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 22 November 1803

Reference

Cite as: “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0023. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 28.]

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