From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 28 May 1796
To the United States Senate
United States 28th May 1796
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate John Quincy Adams, at present Minister Resident of the United States at the Hague, to be their Minister Plenipotentiary at Lisbon.1
Go: Washington
Copy, DLC:GW.
1. The Senate received this nomination on this date and consented on 30 May ( 212–13).
John Quincy Adams never served as minister to Portugal. For his continuance as minister to the Netherlands, see Timothy Pickering to Adams, 11 June, in DNA: RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions. President John Adams nominated his son as minister to Prussia on 20 May 1797 (see GW to John Adams, 20 Feb. 1797, in MHi: Adams Papers, and 86–89).
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