MIDNIGHT APPOINTMENTS
\mˈɪdna͡ɪt ɐpˈɔ͡ɪntmənts], \mˈɪdnaɪt ɐpˈɔɪntmənts], \m_ˈɪ_d_n_aɪ_t ɐ_p_ˈɔɪ_n_t_m_ə_n_t_s]\
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Official appointments of sixteen circuit judges and other inferior officers made by John Adams during the last three weeks of his Presidential term, many of the papers being signed just before midnight of March 3, 1801. These appointments were made in a spirit of pique at Jefferson's success, and the officers chosen were in every instance Federalists, bitterly opposed to Jefferson's principles.
By John Franklin Jameson
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