The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . was appointed United States ministerto Russia, but declined the office, and returnedto Wilmington on June 15, 1814, where he died,August 6th, following. BAYARD, James Asheton, Jr., son of thepreceding, born at Wilmington, Delaware, ) 1799; died at the same place, June 13, studied and practiced law at Wilmington, andwas United States attorney for his state duringVan Burens Presidency. He entered the Senatein 1851, and was successively re-elected in 1857and 1S62. Mr. Bayard was a Democrat, a be-
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . was appointed United States ministerto Russia, but declined the office, and returnedto Wilmington on June 15, 1814, where he died,August 6th, following. BAYARD, James Asheton, Jr., son of thepreceding, born at Wilmington, Delaware, ) 1799; died at the same place, June 13, studied and practiced law at Wilmington, andwas United States attorney for his state duringVan Burens Presidency. He entered the Senatein 1851, and was successively re-elected in 1857and 1S62. Mr. Bayard was a Democrat, a be-liever in state rights, and presided over that partof the national Democratic convention of i860which nominated J. C. Breckinridge for the Presi-dency in opposition to Douglas, thus giving theelectoral vote to Lincoln. He was brother ofRichard Henry Bayard. The two brothers, thefather, James Asheton Bayard, Sr., Thomas F.(son of James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), and Gov-ernor Bassett, grandfather of the first two men-tioned, occupied seats in the United States Senate. BAYARD—BAYLEY 391. THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD. BAYARD, Jean Francois Alfred, born atCharoUes, March 17, 1796, died in Paris, Feb. 19,1853. He wrote a great number of popular come-dies, two of which were La Reiiie de Seize Arts(1828) and Les Gamitis de Paris (1832). BAYARD, Richard Henry, son of JamesAsheton Bayard, Sr. ; born at Wilmington, Dela-ware, 1796; died at Philadelphia, March 4, graduated at Princeton, studied and practicedlaw in his native city, and in 1836 was elected tothe United States Senate. Before his term ex-pired he was elected chief justice of was again sent to Congress, and from 1850 to1853 he represented the United States at , Thomas Francis, the son of JamesA. Bayard, Jr., was born at Wilmington, Del-aware, Oct. 29, received his aca-demic education at anEpiscopal school inFlushing, Long Island,and afterward entered amercantile house in NewYork. In 1848 he re-
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