Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from William Cocke and Joseph Winston, 26 March 1804

From William Cocke and Joseph Winston

Washington 26th March 1804

Sir

The undersign’d beg leave to Recommend John Williams Esqr of the State of Tennessee as a Genteelman of Legal abilities Undoubted integrity and well qualified to fill the Office of a Judge in the district of new Orleans he is a firm friend to the present Goverment of his Country and we beleave that if he Should be honour,d with the Appointment he will make a prudant and upright Judge

Wm Cocke

Jos. Winston

RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR); endorsed by TJ as received 27 Mch. and “Williams John to be judge of Orlean” and so recorded in SJL.

Joseph Winston (1746-1815) moved in 1766 from his native Virginia to North Carolina, where he served as an army major during the Revolutionary War. He was an intermittent member of the North Carolina Senate and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1793, 1803, and 1805 (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from William Cocke and Joseph Winston, 26 March 1804
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    Cocke, William
    Winston, Joseph
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    26 March 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from William Cocke and Joseph Winston, 26 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0088. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 95.]