From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 9 May 1796

To the United States Senate

United States 9. May 1796

Gentlemen of the Senate

I nominate James McDowell to be Inspector of the Revenue for the sixth survey in the District of virginia vice James Brackenridge resigned.1

L[S], DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.

Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr., had written GW on 6 May: “The Secretary of The Treasury has the honor to submit to The President, recommendations in favor of several Candidates for the office of Inspector of the Revenue for the 6th Survey of the District of Virginia, vacant by the resignation of James Brakenridge Esqr.” (LB, DLC:GW). The enclosed recommendations have not been identified.

1. The Senate received this message on 10 May and confirmed the nomination on 11 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 207–8).

James McDowell (1770–1835), of Rockbridge County, Va., was a son-in-law of GW’s acquaintance William Preston (1729–1783). McDowell’s children included a namesake son, who became governor of Virginia, and a daughter Elizabeth, who married Thomas Hart Benton, noteworthy as U.S. senator from Missouri.

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 9 May 1796
Author: Washington, George
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Date: 9 May 1796

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 9 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0093. [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. 119.]

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