| LC control no. | n 84024517 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1767-1815 |
| Variant(s) | Bayard, James Asheton, 1767-1815 Bayard, J. A. (James Asheton), 1767-1815 Bayard, Mr. (James Asheton), 1767-1815 |
| Birth date | 1767-07-28 |
| Death date | 1815-08-06 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Wilmington (Del.) |
| Affiliation | College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.) United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Federal Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | His Mr. Bayard's speech on the usurpation of executive authority, 1799. LC in RLIN, 9/10/84 (hdg.: Bayard, James Asheton, 1767-1815; usage: James A. Bayard) MWA/NAIP files (usage: James A. Bayard; J.A. Bayard; Mr. Bayard) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, February 7, 2017: (Bayard, 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.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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