President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison Appoint a Fellow Virginian a Surgeon in the Navy, a Rare Early US Medical Appointment
Both Jefferson and Madison would later serve with the appointee on the first University of Virginia Board of Commissioners
An extremely uncommon and early presidential appointment of a physician
Document signed, with engravings of flags and cannons, Washington, August 9, 1805, appointing James M. Taylor to be a surgeon in the Navy.
After his service, Taylor, a Virginian, was a doctor and listed as such in the Virginia Museum of History...
An extremely uncommon and early presidential appointment of a physician
Document signed, with engravings of flags and cannons, Washington, August 9, 1805, appointing James M. Taylor to be a surgeon in the Navy.
After his service, Taylor, a Virginian, was a doctor and listed as such in the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. He may have been acquainted with Jefferson before his appointment, but he certainly was afterwards. Both Jefferson and Taylor, along with James Madison, were on the first University of Virginia Board of Commissioners.
An extremely uncommon presidential appointment of a physician.
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