To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1795

From Edmund Randolph

Feby 14. 1795.

E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that after every effort no person has appeared so proper for the temporary comptrollership as Major Lenox; and he will accept, without further expectations. Mr Wolcott and E. Randolph concur in thinking him unexceptionable; and if the President should approve, the business of the office, which is now stagnated, may immediately proceed.1

AL, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.

1. GW signed a commission for David Lenox as temporary comptroller on this date (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 326).

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Title: To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1795
Author: Randolph, Edmund
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 14 February 1795

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0351. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 17, 1 October 1794–31 March 1795, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, p. 526.]

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