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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareBASSETT, Richard
(1745—1815)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1791; 1791-1793
Party:
Anti-Administration; Pro-Administration
BASSETT, 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.
Pattison, Robert Emory. The Life and Character of Richard Bassett
. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1900.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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