1From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Williams of North Carolina to be Governor of the Missisipi territory. Daniel T. Tomkins of New York to be judge of the court of the District of New York. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark at each entry. Notation in SJL : “Nomns. Williams. Tompkins.” On this day, Isaac A. Coles delivered the message to...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 13 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate James Bowdoin of Massachusets Minister Plenipotentiary for the US. at the court of Madrid. George W. Irving of Massachusets to be Secretary of legation for the US. at the court of Madrid. William Brown, late of Columbia, now of Orleans, to be Collector of New Orleans. William Lyman of Massachusets to be Surveyor & Inspector for New Orleans. Thomas Tingey of Columbia to be a captain...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Smith, now Secretary of the Navy, to be Attorney General of the United States. Jacob Crownenshield of Massachusets to be Secretary of the Navy. Obadiah Jones of Georgia to be one of the judges of the court of the Missisipi territory. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark at each entry. Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate on 2 Mch. The Senate dispensed with the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 28 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Charles Tenant Porter of East Tenissee to be Marshal of East Tenissee for four years from the expiration of his present commission of Marshal. Edward Scott of East Tenissee to be Attorney for the US. in the district of East Tenissee. Algernon Sidney Stanford of Maryland to be Collector & Inspector of the revenue for the port & district of Vienna in Maryland. Ormond Tuley of North...
5From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Johnson of South Carolina to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the US. in the place of Alfred Moore resigned. John Samuel Sherburne of New Hampshire to be District judge of the district of New Hampshire. Jonathan Steele of New Hampshire to be Attorney for the US. in the district of New Hampshire. Joseph McIlvaine of New Jersey to be Attorney for the US. in the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
No occasion having arisen, since the last account rendered by my predecessor, of making use of any part of the monies heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the government, I now transmit to Congress an official statement thereof to the 31st. day of December last, when the whole unexpended balance, amounting to 20,911. D 80 c was carried to the credit of the Surplus fund, as...
7From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 31 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th. instant, I now communicate a report of the Secretary of State with documents relative to complaints against arming the merchant ships & vessels of the US. & the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ). Notation in SJL :...
8From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 17 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I lay before both houses of Congress, for their information, the report from the Director of the Mint now inclosed. RC ( DNA : RG 46 , LPPM , 7th Cong., 1st sess.); entirely in TJ’s hand; date reworked by TJ from 16 to 17 Feb.; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC ( DLC ). RC ( DNA : RG 233 , PM
9From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 11 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now communicate to you, a memorial of the Commissioners for the City of Washington together with a letter of later date, which, with their memorial of Jan: 28: 1801 . will possess the legislature fully of the state of the public interests, & of those of the city of Washington, confided to them. The monies now due, & soon to become due to the State of Maryland, on the loan guarantied by the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 27 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Dennis Claude of Maryland Cornelius Baldwin of Virginia Hugh M. Hull of Georgia to be Surgeons mates in the army of the US. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); signature and date clipped, supplied from PoC ; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ). Notation in SJL : “Medical nominns.” Lewis Harvie presented TJ’s message to the Senate on 27 Mch., and the nominations were...
11From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate for information a copy of the speech of Arthur St. Clair , governor of the territory N.W. of the Ohio, delivered to the Convention assembled under the act of Congress for enabling that territory to form a constitution & for it’s admission into the union, which copy has been transmitted to me through authentic channels. This outrage on the justice and wisdom of the National...
12From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Some statements have been lately recieved of the causes decided or depending in the courts of the Union, in certain states, supplementary, or corrective of those, from which was formed the general statement accompanying my message at the opening of the session. I, therefore, communicate them to Congress, with a report of the Secretary of State, noting their effect on the former statement, and...
13From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 18 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the reverend Alexander McFarlan of Virginia to be a chaplain in the Navy. RC ( DNA : RG 46 , EPEN , 7th Cong., 1st sess.); addressed: “The honourable The President of the Senate”; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC ( DLC ). Alexander McFarlan of Virginia was recommended to Robert Smith by former Virginia congressman John Nicholas, whose letter to Smith of 7 Feb. 1802 stated that...
14From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 11 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Spoliations and irregularities committed on our commerce during the late war by subjects of Spain, or by others deemed within her responsibility, having called for attention, instructions were accordingly given to our minister at Madrid to urge our right to just indemnifications, and to propose a convention for adjusting them. the Spanish government listened to our proposition with an...
15From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 24 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate James Bruff, now a Captain, to be Major in the corps of Artillerists, vice Richard S. Blackburn decd. Richard Whiley, now a 1st. Lieutt. to be a Captain vice James Bruff promotd. Simon Owens, a 2d Lieutt. to be 1st. Lieutenant vice 1st. Lieutt. G. W. Stall resignd James Porter, an ensign, to be 2d. Lieutt. vice 2d. Lieutt. Owens promoted Peter P. Schuyler, a 1st Lieutt. to be...
16From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 12 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now communicate to you a letter from the Secretary of State inclosing an estimate of the expences which appear at present necessary for carrying into effect the Convention between the U.S. of America and the French Republic, which has been prepared at the request of the House of Representatives. RC ( DNA : RG 46 , LPPM , 7th Cong., 1st sess.); in Meriwether Lewis’s hand, signed and dated by...
17From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 17 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate John Spence West , whose term as Marshal of North Carolina expired on the 10th. inst. to be reappointed Marshal of North Carolina. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 7th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PrC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “nomn of West marshl N.C.” Meriwether Lewis brought TJ’s nomination of john spence west to the Senate on Monday, 20 Dec. The Senate...
18From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In a message of the 14th. of January I transmitted a letter from the Secretary at war proposing certain military promotions & appointments, & nominating the persons accordinly by reference to the letter: which nominations the Senate afterwards advised & consented to. among these was the nomination of 2d. Lieutt. Henry Hopkins to be promoted to the rank of 1st. Lieutt. in the 2d. regiment of...
19From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 26 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Hull of Massachusets to be Governor of the territory of Michigan. Stanley Griswold of Connecticut to be Secretary of the territory of Michigan Samuel Huntington of Ohio to be a judge of the court in the territory of Michigan Frederick Bates of Michigan to be a judge of the court of the same territory Augustus B. Woodward of the territory of Columbia to be a judge of the...
20From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 16 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now transmit a statement of the expences incurred by the US. in their transactions with the the Barbary powers , and a Roll of the persons having office or employment under the US. as was proposed in my messages of December the 7th. and 22d. neither is as perfect as could have been wished; and the latter not so much so as further time & enquiry may enable us to make it. The great volume of...
21From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 11 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate John Graham of Kentucky, late Secretary of legation to Madrid, to be Secretary for the territory of Orleans. William Bellinger Bullock of Georgia to be Attorney for the United States in the district of Georgia. William Creighton of Ohio, to be Attorney for the United States in the district of Ohio. William Lyman of Massachusets to be Consul for the United States at London. Peter...
22From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The offices of Secretary of state, Secretary of war, Attorney general of the United States, and Minister plenipotentiary to the republic of France being vacant, I nominate the following persons to them James Madison junr. of Virginia, to be Secretary of State: Henry Dearborn of Massachusets to be Secretary of War: Levi Lincoln of Massachusets to be Attorney General of the United States: Robert...
23From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 3 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Thomas Hill Williams of the Missisipi territory to be Register of the land office West of Pearl river. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 8th Cong., 2d sess.); signature clipped, supplied from PoC ; endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC ( DLC ); TJ added a check mark in margin by Williams’s name. Notation in SJL : “Nomns. T. H. Williams.” The Senate confirmed the nomination on this day. On 13 Mch.,...
24From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 15 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I now lay before you a treaty entered into on the 18th. day of August of the present year between the US. on the one part and the Delaware Indians on the other, for the extinguishment of their title to a tract of country between the Ohio and Wabash rivers: and another of the 27th. day of the same month between the US. and the Piankeshaws for a confirmation of the same by the latter, together...
25From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 21 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Tuscarora Indians , having an interest in some lands within the state of North Carolina, asked the superintendence of the Government of the US. over a treaty to be held between them & the state of North Carolina respecting these lands. William Richardson Davie was appointed a Commissioner for this purpose, and a treaty was concluded under his superintendance. this, with his letter on the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 15 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Gabriel Duval of Maryland to be Comptroller of the treasury of the US. vice John Steele resigned. William Peck of Rhodeisland whose office of Marshal of Rhode island expired on the 13th. instant to be reappointed Marshal of that district. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN , 7th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk; also endorsed at foot of text: “The Senate advise & Consent to Wm. Peck...
27From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 14 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the several persons named in the inclosed letter from the Secretary at War for the promotions and appointments in the army of the United States therein proposed for them respectively. PoC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “Military nominations.” Enclosure: Dearborn to TJ, [11] Jan. I nominate : on the same day, Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate, where it was...
28From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 14 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Aaron Vale of New York to be commercial agent of the United States at L’orient in France. RC ( DNA : RG 46, EPEN ; 7th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by Senate clerks. PrC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “nomination of Vale.” Meriwether Lewis delivered this nomination to the Senate on 14 Feb. and the next day it was read and ordered to lie for consideration. A week later it was...
29From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 11 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
During the late recess of the Senate I granted commissions for the Promotions, transfers, and appointments in the army of the US. which are under the mark A. in the inclosed Schedule signed by the Secretary at war, which will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I therefore nominate the same persons for the same commissions for reappointment. I also nominate the persons...
30From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 30 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
During the last recess of the Senate I granted commissions for the offices and to the persons following, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I therefore nominate the same persons to the same offices for reappointment, to wit William C. C. Claiborne late Governor of the Missisipi territory to be Governor of the territory of Orleans. John B. Prevost of...