Federalist (nationalist) President John Adams appoints a three-member peace commission consisting of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, former Ambassador to the Republic of France; former State House Delegate John Marshall, of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and former Republican Representative Elbridge Gerry, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; to negotiate a treaty of friendship with France.
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Authority:
Article II, Section 2 [Clause 2]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 54.
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