Word: asheton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...James Asheton Bayard II, Senator (1851-64), resigned his office on being required to take an "iron clad oath" of allegiance to the Government. He was later reappointed to the Senate and served until...
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