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BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS (1828-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 555 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAYARD, See also:THOMAS See also:FRANCIS (1828-1898) , See also:American diplomatist, was See also:born in See also:Wilmington, See also:Delaware, on the 29th of See also:October 1828. His See also:great-grandfather, See also:Richard Bassett (1745–1815), See also:governor of Delaware; his grandfather, See also:James Asheton Bayard (1767–1815), a prominent Federalist, and one of the See also:United States commissioners who negotiated the treaty of See also:Ghent with Great See also:Britain after the See also:War of 1812; his See also:uncle, Richard See also:Henry Bayard (1796–1868); and his See also:father, James Asheton Bayard (1799–1880), a well-known constitutional lawyer, all represented Delaware in the United States See also:Senate. Intending to go into business, he did not receive a See also:college See also:education; but in 1848 he began the study of See also:law in the See also:office of his father, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 185r. Except from 1855 to 1857, when he was a partner of See also:William Shippen in See also:Philadelphia, he practised chiefly in Wilmington. He was a United States senator from Delaware from 1869 to 1885, and in 1881 was (October loth to 13th) See also:president See also:pro tempore of the Senate. His abilities made him a See also:leader of the Democrats in the Senate, and his views on See also:financial and legal questions gave him a high reputation for statesmanship. He was a member of the electoral See also:commission of 1877. In the Democratic See also:national conventions of 1872, 1876, 188o and 1884 he received votes for nomination as the party See also:candidate for the See also:presidency. He was secretary of See also:state, 1885-1889, during the first See also:administration of President See also:Cleveland, and pursued a conservative policy in See also:foreign affairs, the most important See also:matter with which he was called upon to See also:deal being the See also:Bering See also:Sea controversy. As See also:ambassador to Great Britain, 1893–1897, his tall dignified See also:person, unfailing See also:courtesy, and polished, if somewhat deliberate, eloquence made him a See also:man of See also:mark in all the best circles. He was considered indeed by many Americans to have become too partial to See also:English ways; and, for the expression of some criticisms regarded as unfavourable to his own countrymen, the See also:House of Representatives went so far as to pass, on the 7th of See also:November 1895, a See also:vote of censure on him. The value of Mr Bayard's See also:diplomacy was, however, fully recognized in the United See also:Kingdom, where he worthily upheld the traditions of a famous See also:line of American ministers.

He was the first representative of the United States in Great Britain to hold the See also:

diplomatic See also:rank of an ambassador. He died in See also:Dedham, See also:Massachusetts, on the 28th of See also:September 1898. See See also:Edward See also:Spencer, Public See also:Life and Services of T. F. Bayard (New See also:York, 188o).

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