James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 6 January 1817

To the Senate

January 6th. 1817

I nominate

Shubael Butterfield of New Hampshire
Thomas G. Chase ″ Massachusetts
Robert Lyman ″ Ditto
William Brown ″ New York
Edwin B. Newton ″ Ditto
John H. Duncan ″ Pennsylvania
Elijah J. Weed ″ Ditto
Augustus de Rumford ″ Delaware

to be Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A2). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate confirmed the appointments on 16 Jan. 1817 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 3:69, 70, 72).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 6 January 1817
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    Madison, James
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    6 January 1817

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 6 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0635. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 595–596.]

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