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Bayard, Thomas Francis

statesman, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in Wilmington, Del. He was chiefly educated at the Flushing school. His early training was for a mercantile life; studied and adopted the profession of the law; and came to the bar in 1851, and has always practiced in his native city. In 1853 he was appointed United States district attorney for Delaware, but resigned in 1854. He was elected a senator in congress from that state in 1869.

On the day of his election his father, James A. Bayard, was also reelected to the senate from the same state -the only instance of the kind which ever occurred. He was re-elected in 1875, and again in 1881. In 1885 he was appointed secretary of state in the cabinet of President Cleveland, and resigned his seat in the senate. He died Sept. 28, 1898, in Dedham, Mass. same