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From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805

To the Senate

To the Senate of the United States.

I nominate Robert Williams of North Carolina to be Governor of the Missisipi territory.

Daniel T. Tomkins of New York to be judge of the court of the District of New York.

Th: Jefferson

Mar. 1. 1805.

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: “Nomns. Williams. Tompkins.”

On this day, Isaac A. Coles delivered the message to the Senate, which the next day voted to approve the nominations (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 , 1:484-5).

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