From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 30 November 1804
To the Senate
To the Senate of the United States.
During the last recess of the Senate I granted commissions for the offices and to the persons following, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I therefore nominate the same persons to the same offices for reappointment, to wit
William C. C. Claiborne late Governor of the Missisipi territory to be Governor of the territory of Orleans.
John B. Prevost of New York1 to be one of the judges of the Superior court for the territory of Orleans.
Dominic A. Hall of South Carolina to be judge of the District court for the Orleans district.
Francis Joseph Le Breton d’Orgenoy of Orleans2 Marshal for the district of Orleans.
William G. Garland of Orleans to be Naval officer for the port of New Orleans.
John Thibaut of Orleans Surveyor & Inspector for the port of Bayou St. John in N. Orleans.
I also nominate
James Brown of Kentucky to be one of the judges of the Superior court for the territory of Orleans
Tomson J. Skinner of Massachusets to be Marshal for the district of Massachusets from the 22d day of December ensuing
Benjamin Austin Junior3 of Massachusets to be Commissioner of loans for Massachusets
Th: Jefferson
Nov. 30. 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: “renomns Orleans, & nomns.”
Samuel Bradford, whom Tompson J. Skinner replaced as marshal for Massachusetts, wrote to Madison on 1 Dec. in an attempt to retain his office, offering a renewal of his services and soliciting the president’s patronage (RC in DNA: RG 59, LAR, endorsed by TJ: “Bradford Saml. to be contind Marshl of Mass.”).
William A. Burwell presented TJ’s nominations to the Senate on 30 Nov. The Senate consented to them all on 11 and 12 Dec. (, 1:475-7).
1. Preceding three words interlined in Samuel A. Otis’s hand. Interlined in PoC by TJ as “of N. York.”
2. Preceding two words interlined by TJ.
3. Word interlined in Otis’s hand. Interlined in PoC by TJ as “jor.” See TJ to Dearborn, 2 Dec., and to Otis, 3 Dec.