Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805

To the Senate

To the Senate of the United States

I nominate Robert Smith, now Secretary of the Navy, to be Attorney General of the United States.

Jacob Crownenshield of Massachusets to be Secretary of the Navy.

Obadiah Jones of Georgia to be one of the judges of the court of the Missisipi territory.

Th: Jefferson

Mar. 2. 1805.

PoC (DLC); TJ added a check mark at each entry.

Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate on 2 Mch. The Senate dispensed with the rule that nominations should lie for consideration, immediately approved the three appointments, and sent the decisions to the president (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 , 1:486).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    2 March 1805

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0627. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 618.]

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