From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 13 November 1804
To the Senate
To the Senate of the United States.
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 in the navy of the US.
Franklin Wharton, now a Major in the Marine corps, to be Colonel Commandant of the same instead of Colo. Burrowes resigned.
Oliver H. Spencer of Orleans, Surgeon, to take rank from Oct. 9. 1804.
Abraham Edwards of N. Jersey to be a Surgeon’s mate, to rank from June 8. 1804.
Th: Jefferson
Nov. 13. 1804
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: “nominns. Bowdoin &c. & military.”
William A. Burwell presented TJ’s nominations to the Senate on 19 Nov. The following day, the Senate consented to all the nominations except those of Smith, Kimball, Brownson, and Marshall, which were approved on 22 Nov. (, 1:472-4).