1From James Madison to the Senate, 26 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
To the Senate of the United States. The considerations which led to the nomination of a Minister...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 1 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit for the information of Congress letters recently recieved from our Consuls at...
3From James Madison to the Senate, 21 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 December 1812. Nominates seven men, “Midshipmen since 1806, and now acting Lieutenants,” to be...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Williams of North Carolina to be Governor of the Missisipi territory. Daniel T....
5Enclosure: Draft Message on Western Defense, 16 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate The pacific measures which were adopted for establishing peace between...
6From James Madison to the Senate, [4 April 1816] (Madison Papers)
I withdraw the nominations of John Balkam, William Campbell and John Burley, as stated in my...
7From James Madison to the Senate, 22 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 January 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury “on the subject of...
8Reply of the President to the Senate, [13 December] 1790 (Madison Papers)
These assurances of favorable attention to the subjects I have recommended, and of entire...
9From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Alexander Scott of Maryland, to be commissioner under the act providing for the...
10From James Madison to the Senate, 22 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of the treasury in compliance with a...
11From James Madison to the Senate, 17 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I Nominate William R. King, of North Carolina to be Secretary of the Legation to Russia. RC ( DNA...
12From James Madison to the Senate, 3 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with their resolution of the 3d instant, the Senate are informed that the office of...
13George Washington to the Senate, [ca. 4 January 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Your house has been pleased to communicate to me their resolutions, purporting a decision by them...
14From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Valentine Southall, of Virginia to be collector of direct tax and internal duties for...
15From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 13 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate James Bowdoin of Massachusets Minister Plenipotentiary for the US. at the court of...
16From James Madison to the Senate, 25 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having been issued during the recess of Congress to the following persons as...
17From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now...
18From James Madison to the Senate, 28 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
I transmit to the Senate a Report of the acting Secretary of the Treasury, containing the...
19From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, John B. Jasper, to be Surveyor of the port of Slades Creek North Carolina in the...
20From James Madison to the Senate, 20 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William Wirt of Virginia to be Attorney of the United States for the District of...
21From James Madison to the Senate, 18 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I Nominate, John Swart, of New York to be Collector of the direct tax and internal duties for the...
22From James Madison to the Senate, 6 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Shubael Butterfield of New Hampshire Thomas G. Chase ″ Massachusetts Robert Lyman ″...
23From James Madison to the Senate, 8 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Jacob D. Williamson, of Virginia, to be principal Assessor of the 8th collection...
24From James Madison to the Senate, [ca. 7 February 1817] (Madison Papers)
I nominate Henry Wilcox of Ohio, to be surveyor and inspector of the port of Marietta same state...
25From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William Gamble of New Jersey, as Consul for the Island of St Eustatia. RC ( DNA : RG...
26George Washington to the Senate, with Jefferson’s Note to Washington, 28 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was led, by a consideration of the qualifications of Patterson of New Jersey to nominate him an...
27From James Madison to the Senate, 23 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I transmit to the Senate a report of the Acting Secretary of War, in compliance with their...
28From James Madison to the Senate, 21 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Emanuel Wambersie of Georgia, to be consul at Ostend, in the Low Countries. Henry...
29From James Madison to the Senate, 24 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
I Nominate, Claude Crozet, to be professor of Engineering at the Military Academy. William Tell...
30From James Madison to the Senate, 10 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
I lay before the Senate for their consideration & advice, as to a ratification Treaties concluded...
31From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 2 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Robert Smith, now Secretary of the Navy, to be Attorney General of the United States....
32From James Madison to the Senate, Ca. 7 February 1817 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To the Senate. Ca. 7 February 1817. Forwards a list of twenty-five people nominated for...
33From James Madison to the Senate, 24 February 1817 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To the Senate. 24 February 1817. Nominates twelve officers and thirty-five midshipmen for...
34From James Madison to the Senate, 26 February 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 February 1813. “I nominate Brigadier General James Wilkinson, Brigadier General Wade Hampton,...
35Enclosure: Draft of Message to the Senate, [before 12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
By a resoln of the Senate of the 14th. of May. 1800. the President was requested to instruct the...
36From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for the Offices respectively, as stated in...
37From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the following persons to office, as respectively stated. David Latimore of the...
38From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 28 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Charles Tenant Porter of East Tenissee to be Marshal of East Tenissee for four years...
39From James Madison to the Senate, 7 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in compliance with a Senate...
40From James Madison to the Senate, 31 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, William Jones, } Citizens of the United States residing at Philadelphia in the State...
41From James Madison to the Senate, 15 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Joseph Bartholemew, of Indiana Territory, to be Major General in the Militia of the...
42From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 22 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate William Johnson of South Carolina to be an associate justice of the supreme court of...
43From James Madison to the Senate, 27 February 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 February 1813. “I nominate Oliver H. Perry—appointed a master-commandant during the recess—to...
44From James Madison to the Senate, 6 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1812. “I transmit to the Senate copies and extracts of documents in the Archives of the...
45From James Madison to the Senate, 17 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 February 1810. Transmits report of the secretary of the treasury in response to a Senate...
46From Alexander Hamilton to the Senate and the House of Representatives, [31 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Arrangement made by the President of the United States, with respect to the subdivisions of the...
47From James Madison to the Senate, 22 July 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 July 1813, Washington. “Commissions having been granted during the recess of the Senate to the...
48From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
No occasion having arisen, since the last account rendered by my predecessor, of making use of...
49From James Madison to the Senate, 13 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 January 1813. Transmits to the Senate “copies of the correspondence called for by their...
50From James Madison to the Senate, 3 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, John Mullowny, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the United States for the Island of...