From James Madison to the Senate, 28 January 1817

To the Senate

January 28. 1817

I nominate

The Revd Nathaniel Andrews, of Maryland

″ John Ireland New York

To be Chaplains in the Navy;

and

Ashton Y. Humphreys, of Pennsylvania,

To be a Purser in the Navy.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A2). In a clerk’s hand, signed and dated by JM.

Cite as: “From James Madison to the Senate, 28 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0686. [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. 635.]