George Washington Papers

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

To the United States Senate

United States, Feby 2d 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate Oliver Wolcott Junr to be Secretary for the Treasury Department of the United States, vice Alexander Hamilton, who has resigned that office.1

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LS, DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB, DLC:GW.

1. The Senate confirmed this nomination on 3 Feb. (Senate Executive Journal description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends , 171).

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    From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795
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    “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0319. [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. 475–476.]

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