Excerpt from A Biographical Congressional Directory, 1774 to 1903: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, Inclusive; The United States Congress, the First Congress to the Fifty-Seventh Congress, March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1903, Inclusive Secretary of Stale - Timothy Pickering, of Penn sylvania, continued from last Administration; Charles Lee, of Virginia (attorney-general), ad interim, May 13, 1800; John Marshall, of Vir ginia, May 13, 1800. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.