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Bayard, James Asheton

United States senator, was born July 28, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He graduated at Princeton college in 1784; after studying law at Philadelphia, commenced the practice in Delaware. In 1796 he was elected a representative in congress from Delaware, serving from 1797 to 1801, when he was appointed minister to France.

In 1804 he was elected to the United States senate, of which body he continued a member until appointed, in 1813, a commissioner to negotiate a peace with Great Britain. He died Aug. 6, 1815, in Wilmington, Del. con-