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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareJames Asheton BAYARD, Sr.
(1767-1815)
Senate Years of Service:
1804-1813Party: FederalistBAYARD, James Asheton,
Sr., (father of Richard Henry Bayard and James Asheton
Bayard, Jr., nephew of John Bubenheim Bayard, grandfather of Thomas
Francis Bayard, Sr., and great-grandfather of Thomas Francis
Bayard, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in
Philadelphia, Pa., July 28, 1767; graduated from Princeton College
in 1784; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1787 and commenced
practice in Wilmington, Del.; declined the appointment as Minister
to France tendered by President John Adams in 1801; elected as a
Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4,
1797-March 3, 1803); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802;
one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in
1798 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William Blount,
a Senator from Tennessee; elected as a Federalist to the United
States Senate in 1804 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of William Hill Wells; reelected in 1805 and 1811 and served from
November 13, 1804, to March 3, 1813, when he resigned; appointed a
member of the commission to negotiate peace with Great Britain in
1813; aided in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, signed in December
1814; declined the appointment as Minister to Russia tendered by
President James Madison in 1815; died in Wilmington, Del., August
6, 1815; interment at Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Md.; reinterment
about 1842 in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington,
Del.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Borden, Morton. The Federalism of James A.
Bayard. 1955. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968; Donnan,
Elizabeth. Papers of James Asheton Bayard, 1796-1815. 1915.
Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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