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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareRichard BASSETT
(1745-1815)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1793Party: Anti-Administration;
Pro-AdministrationBASSETT, Richard,
(grandfather of Richard Henry Bayard and James Asheton Bayard,
Jr.), a Senator from Delaware; born in Cecil County, Md., April 2,
1745; pursued preparatory studies; studied law; admitted to the bar
and practiced in Delaware; captain of a Delaware troop during the
Revolutionary War; member of the State constitutional conventions
in 1776 and 1792; member, State senate 1782; member, State house of
representatives 1786; delegate to the convention which framed the
Constitution of the United States in 1787; member of the Delaware
convention which ratified the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected
to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to March
3, 1793; chief justice of the court of common pleas 1793-1799;
Governor of Delaware 1799-1801; appointed United States circuit
judge by President John Adams in 1801; died on his estate,
‘Bohemia Manor,’ in Cecil County, Md., August 15, 1815;
interment Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Pattison, Robert E. The
Life and Character of Richard Bassett. Wilmington, Del.:
Delaware Historical Society, 1900.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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