Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 13 November 1804

To the Senate

To the Senate of the United States.

I nominate James Bowdoin of Massachusets Minister Plenipotentiary for the US. at the court of Madrid.

George W. Irving of Massachusets to be Secretary of legation for the US. at the court of Madrid.

William Brown, late of Columbia, now of Orleans, to be Collector of New Orleans.

William Lyman of Massachusets to be Surveyor & Inspector for New Orleans.

Thomas Tingey of Columbia to be a captain in the navy of the US.

Franklin Wharton, now a Major in the Marine corps, to be Colonel Commandant of the same instead of Colo. Burrowes resigned.

Hannibal M. Allen of Vermont } to be 2d. Lieutenants of Artillery,
to take rank from the 27th.
of June 1804.
James S. Smith of New Jersey
Joseph Kimball of N. Hampshire
 
John Brownson of Vermont } to be ensigns in the 1st
regiment of infantry to take rank
from June 27. 1804.
Johnson Magowers of Kentucky
Benjamin Marshall of Massachusets

Oliver H. Spencer of Orleans, Surgeon, to take rank from Oct. 9. 1804.

Abraham Edwards of N. Jersey to be a Surgeon’s mate, to rank from June 8. 1804.

Th: Jefferson

Nov. 13. 1804

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: “nominns. Bowdoin &c. & military.”

William A. Burwell presented TJ’s nominations to the Senate on 19 Nov. The following day, the Senate consented to all the nominations except those of Smith, Kimball, Brownson, and Marshall, which were approved on 22 Nov. (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 , 1:472-4).

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