From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 January 1795

To the United States Senate

United States 2d Jany 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate Timothy Pickering, to be Secretary for the Department of War; vice Henry Knox, who has resigned that office.1

Go: Washington

LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 38; copy, DLC:GW.

1. For Knox’s resignation, see his letter to GW of 28 Dec. 1794. The Senate approved Pickering’s appointment on this date, and GW’s secretary Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., then wrote to George Taylor, Jr., chief clerk at the State Department, that “a Commission will be wanted for him directly” (DLC:GW).

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 January 1795
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate
Date: 2 January 1795

Reference

Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 January 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0242. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 17, 1 October 1794–31 March 1795, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 361–362.]

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