Word: bayards
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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...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, father of the present Senator, was the greatest of all the clan. In 1861 he made a speech which is said 'to have kept Delaware from seceding from Union. He was a Senator (1869-85), a Secretary of State and first U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Senator Bayard's wife is a daughter of the late Dr. Alexis I. du Pont and a cousin of Senator T. Coleman du Pont...
...present Senator Bayard also had a great-great-grandfather, Richard Basset't, who was a Senator (1789-93) and a Governor of Delaware...