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To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 19 April 1816

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department, April 19th. 1816.

Sir,

I have the honour to enclose, herewith, Nominations for the promotions and appointments required by the Naval Service of the United States. I have the honour to be, &c.

B. W. Crowninshield.

Letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure (DNA: RG 45, LSP). JM forwarded the nominations, listing forty-nine names, in two messages to the Senate on 20 Apr. 1816 (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). The Senate approved five nominations on 23 Apr. 1816, rejected that of Buller Cocke of Virginia to be a purser on 26 Apr., and approved the remaining nominations on 26 and 27 Apr. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:44, 46–48, 49, 50).

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    To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 19 April 1816
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    Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
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    Madison, James
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    19 April 1816

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 19 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0407. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 402.]

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