Territorial Governor Brigham Young faced difficult problems with other federal appointees almost immediately.
These circumstances were not helped by the relationship between "Gentile" (non-Mormon) federal appointees and the Mormon territorial leadership.
Peacock was an early adopter of Web 2.0 technology in government and was the first federal political appointee to maintain a public blog.
The gathering alarmed both territorial officials and federal appointees who feared that the meeting might be the start of a great confederation to drive out whites from the valleys.
The condescension with which the federal appointees and their families treated the Mormons created a further source of tension between them.
During most of the intervening years the territory was governed by federal appointees almost exclusively non-Mormons.
Typically, a White House counsel provides ethics advice to the president, reviews pardons and bills and researches the background of federal appointees.
The brevity with which federal appointees serve has added to the problem.
They could, for example, hold up the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees and federal appointees.
She wrote to Associate Justice W.W. Drummond, the 1855 federal appointee to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah.