From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 9 December 1796
To the United States Senate
United States
9th December 1796
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate Robert Troup of New-York to be District Judge for the United States, in the District of New-York, vice John Laurance who has resigned.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; LB, DLC:GW.
On this date, the Senate received this message from GW’s secretary George Washington Craik and ordered that it “lie for consideration.” The nomination was approved on 10 Dec., and GW signed Robert Troup’s commission on 12 Dec. (see , 215; see also , 347).
1. John Laurance had written GW from Philadelphia on 30 Nov.: “The Legislature of the State of New York, having appointed me a Senator, to represent that State in the Senate of the United States, in the Room of Mr King; it has become necessary, for me, to resign my Office of District Judge of the United States, for New York District, which I now do; and shall consider myself after this day, as no longer in that Station” (ALS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters). For Laurance’s appointment as U.S. senator and for Alexander Hamilton’s recommendation of Troup to replace Laurance as U.S. district judge for New York, see Hamilton to GW, 10 Nov., and n.2. Troup served in that post until April 1798.