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From James Madison to the Senate, 28 February 1816

To the Senate

February 28th. 1816.

I nominate, William Pinkney of Maryland, to be Envoy extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, with a special Mission to the King of the Two Sicilies.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. On 2 Mar. 1816 the Senate requested JM to provide “such information as he may deem proper, showing the expediency of a special mission to the King of the Two Sicilies” (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 3:33).

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 28 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0282. [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. 258.]

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