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From James Madison to the Senate, 20 March 1816

To the Senate

March 20th. 1816

I nominate

William Wirt of Virginia to be Attorney of the United States for the District of Virginia in the place of George Hay resigned.

Constant Freeman,1 late of the Army of the United States, to be Accountant of the Navy, in the place of Thomas Turner deceased.

Miles King,2 of Virginia to be the Navy Agent at Norfolk, in place of John H. Fawn resigned.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. Navy Secretary Benjamin Crowninshield fowarded the nominations of Freeman and King to JM on 20 Mar. 1816 (DNA: RG 45, LSP; 1 p.). The Senate confirmed them, as well as Wirt’s, on 22 Mar. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:38).

1. Constant Freeman (1757–1824) served in both the Continental Army (1776–83) and the U.S. Army (1795–1815) and was discharged from the latter with the rank of colonel of artillery. He later served as an auditor in the Treasury Department (Heitman, Historical Register, description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends 1:435; William Lee, “Record of the Services of Constant Freeman: Captain of Artillery in the Continental Army,” Magazine of American History 2 [1878]: 349–60).

2. Miles King Jr. served in the Virginia House of Delegates as the member from Norfolk, 1814–16; he also served as mayor of that city (Swem and Williams, Register, description begins Earl G. Swem and John W. Williams, eds., A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776–1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions (Richmond, Va., 1918). description ends 396; “King Family of Virginia,” WMQ, description begins William and Mary Quarterly. description ends 2nd ser., 16 [1907–8]: 105, 109).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 20 March 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 20 March 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0332. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 307.]

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