To James Madison from Constant Freeman and Others, [post–1 December 1816]

From Constant Freeman and Others

[post-1 December 1816]

We the undersigned do respectfully recommend Mr. Edward Wyer for the vacant Consulate at Hamburg.1

Const: Freeman

Jas. Bankhead

Benjamin Homans

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Wyer”). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on evidence in n. 1. Several other letters recommending Wyer for appointment were written to James Monroe in November and December 1816 (ibid.).

1. JM nominated Wyer to the consulate in Hamburg on 28 Jan. 1817, and the Senate confirmed his appointment on 31 Jan. (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 3:73–74).

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Title: To James Madison from Constant Freeman and Others, [post–1 December 1816]
Author: Freeman, Constant
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 1 December 1816

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Constant Freeman and Others, [post–1 December 1816],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0547. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 521.]