ALS, DLC:GW.

Aaron Dunham (1759–1802) of Hunterdon County, N.J., served in the New Jersey legislature from 1791 to 1795 and as state auditor. GW nominated him to be supervisor of the revenue for New Jersey on 4 Mar. 1791 (see GW to the U.S. Senate, 4 Mar. 1791). He served from 1791 until 1801, although during the later stages of his tenure, according to Oliver Wolcott, he “contracted habits of Intemperance and the business of his office, was for a time too remissly conducted. I once thought of asking him to resign” which “induced him to correct his conduct.” A staunch Federalist, Dunham was accused of drunkenness and of being delinquent in his accounts by Republican critics and was removed from office by Jefferson in 1801 (Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton, 10 Oct. 1801, Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 25:423–27; Joseph Bloomfield to Aaron Burr, 8 April 1801, Kline, Burr Papers, description begins Mary-Jo Kline, ed. Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J., 1983. description ends 1:555–558; N.J. Archives, description begins Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. 42 vols. Newark and Trenton, 1880–1949. description ends 1st ser., 39:141–43).