James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 24 February 1813 (Abstract)

§ To the Senate

24 February 1813. “I nominate, Charles Gordon, Jacob Jones, James Laurence, and Charles Morris, to be Captains in the Navy of the United States.

“Joseph Bainbridge, William M Crane, and James Biddle, to be Master Commandants in the navy of the United States.”

Also nominates ten others as lieutenants in the U.S. Navy.

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 12B-A2). 1 p. In Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM.

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    From James Madison to the Senate, 24 February 1813 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    Date
    24 February 1813

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    “From James Madison to the Senate, 24 February 1813 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0061. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 8 February–24 October 1813, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Anne Mandeville Colony, Mary Parke Johnson, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 65.]

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