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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsBAYLIES, Francis
(1783—1852)
BAYLIES, Francis, (brother of William Baylies), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Taunton, Mass., October 16, 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Taunton, Mass.; register of probate for Bristol County 1812-1820; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; elected as a Federalist to the Seventeenth Congress, a Jackson Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress, and a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate in 1827 for reelection to the Twentieth Congress; member of the State house of representatives 1827-1832; United States Chargé d’Affaires to Argentina, 1832; again elected to the State house of representatives in 1835; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., October 28, 1852; interment in the Old Plain Cemetery.
Baylies, Francis. An address before the members of the Taunton lyceum, delivered July 4, 1831
. Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1831.
———. Eulogy on the Hon. Benjamin Russell, delivered before the Grand lodge of Free and accepted masons of the state of Massachusetts, March 10, 1845
. Boston: Printed at the office of the Freemasons’ magazine, 1845.
———. An historical memoir of the colony of New Plymouth
. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1830.
———. An historical memoir of the colony of New Plymouth, from the flight of the Pilgrims into Holland in the year 1608, to the union of that colony with Massachusetts in 1692
. With some corrections, additions, and a copious index, by Samuel G. Drake. Boston: Wiggin & Lunt, 1866.
———. History of the Northwest Coast
. 1826. Reprint, Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon Press, [1986].
———. Narrative of Major General Wool’s Campaign in Mexico in the Year’s 1846, 1847,1848
. Albany: Little & company, 1851. Reprint, Austin: Jenkins Pub Company, 1951.
———. The original of local and other names: a letter from Hon. Francis Baylies, to Hon. P.W. Leland
. Brooklyn: N.p., 1879.
———. The political character of John Quincy Adams delineated
. Albany: Printed for the Albany Argus, by D. M’Glashan, 1828.
———. Some remarks on the life and character of General David Cobb, delivered at the Taunton lyceum, July 2d, 1830
. Albany: J. Munsell, 1864.
———. Speech of the Hon. Francis Baylies, before the Whigs of Taunton
. Taunton, [Mass.]: Bradford & Amsbury, 1837.
Rezneck, Samuel. “Letters from a Massachusetts Federalist to a New York Democrat, 1823-1839.” New York History
48 (July 1967): 255-74.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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