From John Adams to United States Senate

24 December 1800

Gentlemen of the Senate

United States December 24th 1800

I nominate Samuel Dexter Secretary of War to be Secretary of the Treasury in the place of Oliver Wolcott who has asked and obtained leave to resign at the end of this year 1800.

John Adams

DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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