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From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816

To the Senate

January. 26th. 1816.

I nominate,

Josiah Simpson, of the Mississippi territory, to be one of judges of the same territory.

Herman Visger, of New York, to be consul at Bristol in Great Britain.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate confirmed the nominations on 9 and 28 Feb. 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 3:28–29, 32–33).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0191. [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. 191.]

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