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From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805

To the Senate

To the Senate of the US.

In a message of the 14th. of January I transmitted a letter from the Secretary at war proposing certain military promotions & appointments, & nominating the persons accordinly1 by reference to the letter: which nominations the Senate afterwards advised & consented to. among these was the nomination of 2d. Lieutt. Henry Hopkins to be promoted to the rank of 1st. Lieutt. in the 2d. regiment of infantry, vice Lt. William Wooldridge resigned June 16. 1804. and 2d. Lieutt. William Piatt to be 1st. Lieut. in the 2d. regiment of infantry vice Bowmer promoted Oct. 12. 04. but it since appears that Lt. Hopkins had been previously transferred by the commanding officer from the 2d. into the 1st. regiment & consequently was not entitled to promotion in the 2d. regiment. this fact becoming known before the commissions were delivered I have suppressed them: & now nominate the persons really entitled to promotion, giving to each his corrected date. To wit

I nominate William Piatt now a 2d. Lieutt. in the 2d. regiment of infantry to be a 1st. Lieutt. in the same vice Wm. Wooldridge resignd. June. 16. 04.

William Lawrence now a 2d. Lieutt. in the 2d. regimt. of infantry to be a 1st. Lieutt. in the same vice Joseph Bowman promoted Oct. 12. 1804.

In the same message, by a mistake of the Christian name, Joseph Hanham of Maryland was nominated a 2d. Lieutt. in the regiment of artillerists. but the real name of the person contemplated being James, I now correct the error by Nominating James Hanham of Maryland to be appointed 2d. Lieutt. in the regiment of Artillerists.

I also now nominate Jonathan Eastman, now an Ensign to be a 2d. Lieutt. in the regiment of Artillerists, vice Godfrey Bartles deceased.

The inclosed letter from the Secretary at War states the errors of the former nominations.

Th: Jefferson

Mar. 1. 1805.

RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. PoC (DLC); TJ placed a check mark next to each of the new nominations. Notation in SJL: “Nomns military.” Enclosure: Dearborn to TJ, 27 Feb. (first letter).

the commanding officer: James Wilkinson.

Bowman: that is, Joseph Bowmar.

Isaac A. Coles delivered the message on 1 Mch. and the Senate approved the appointments the following day (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:485).

1. Thus in MS.

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0620. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. 609–610.]

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