fishbourn

Updated: May 26, 2025

He defended his selection on the ground that Fishbourn had a meritorious record as an army officer, had held distinguished positions in the state government of Georgia which testified public confidence, and moreover was actually holding, by virtue of state appointment, an office similar to that to which Washington desired to appoint him.

Henry Jones Ford - Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism

The only rejection, outside the special case of John Rutledge, was that of Benjamin Fishbourn for naval officer of the port of Savannah, which was due apparently to the personal hostility of the Georgia senators. Washington, conscious of his own painstaking, was not a little provoked by this setting aside of an old soldier.

Henry Cabot Lodge - George Washington, Volume II

Washington had to submit to senatorial dictation almost at the outset of his administration, the Senate refusing to confirm his nomination of Benjamin Fishbourn for the place of naval officer at Savannah.

Henry Jones Ford - Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism