From James Madison to the Senate, 20 March 1816
To the Senate
March 20th. 1816
I nominate
William Wirt of Virginia to be Attorney of the United States for the District of Virginia in the place of George Hay resigned.
Constant Freeman,1 late of the Army of the United States, to be Accountant of the Navy, in the place of Thomas Turner deceased.
Miles King,2 of Virginia to be the Navy Agent at Norfolk, in place of John H. Fawn resigned.
James Madison
RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM. Navy Secretary Benjamin Crowninshield fowarded the nominations of Freeman and King to JM on 20 Mar. 1816 (DNA: RG 45, LSP; 1 p.). The Senate confirmed them, as well as Wirt’s, on 22 Mar. 1816 (
3:38).1. Constant Freeman (1757–1824) served in both the Continental Army (1776–83) and the U.S. Army (1795–1815) and was discharged from the latter with the rank of colonel of artillery. He later served as an auditor in the Treasury Department ( 1:435; William Lee, “Record of the Services of Constant Freeman: Captain of Artillery in the Continental Army,” Magazine of American History 2 [1878]: 349–60).
2. Miles King Jr. served in the Virginia House of Delegates as the member from Norfolk, 1814–16; he also served as mayor of that city ( 396; “King Family of Virginia,” 2nd ser., 16 [1907–8]: 105, 109).