BAYARD, 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; was 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); was 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.- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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