James Madison Papers

James Madison to the Senate, 21 January 1817

To the Senate

January 21st. 1817

I withdraw the nomination of Joseph H. Hawkins as Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans & also inspector of the Revenue, in the place of Thomas L. Butler resigned. And I nominate William Emerson, for the said Offices.

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A2). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. The Senate confirmed Emerson’s appointment on 23 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 , 3:72–73).

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    James Madison to the Senate, 21 January 1817
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    “James Madison to the Senate, 21 January 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0669. [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, p. 623.]

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