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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareThomas Francis BAYARD, Sr.
(1828-1898)
Senate Years of Service:
1869-1885Party: DemocratBAYARD, Thomas Francis,
Sr., (son of James Asheton Bayard, Jr., and father of Thomas
Francis Bayard, Jr.), a Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington,
Del., October 29, 1828; attended Doctor Hawkes’ school in
Flushing, N.Y.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1851 and
commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; appointed United States
district attorney for Delaware in 1853, but resigned in 1854; moved
to Philadelphia and practiced law; returned to Wilmington in 1858;
at the expiration of his father’s Senate term in 1869 was
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in
1875 and 1881 and served from March 4, 1869, to March 6, 1885, when
he resigned to become Secretary of State; served as President pro
tempore of the Senate during the Forty-seventh Congress; chairman,
Committee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-third through Forty-fifth
Congresses), Committee on Finance (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee
on Private Land Claims (Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses);
appointed a member of the Electoral Commission created by the act
of Congress approved on January 29, 1877, to decide the contests in
various States in the presidential election of 1876; Secretary of
State in the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland 1885-1889;
Ambassador to Great Britain 1893-1897; died in Dedham, Mass., on
September 28, 1898; interment in Old Swedes Cemetery, Wilmington,
Del.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Tansill, Charles. The Congressional Career of
Thomas F. Bayard. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University
Press, 1946.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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