James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 23 April 1816

To the Senate

April 23d. 1816

I nominate

William Jones } Citizens of the United States residing at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.
Stephen Girard
Pierce Butler
James A Buchanan, a Citizen of the United States residing at Baltimore in the State of Maryland
John Jacob Astor a Citizen of the United States residing at New York in the State of New York

to be five of the Directors of the Bank of the United States in pursuance of the 9th. Section of “the act entitled the Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States.[”]

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate approved the nominations on 26 Apr. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:47–48).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 23 April 1816
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 23 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0414. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 410.]

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