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Senate Years of Service: 1922-1929 Party: Democrat
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BAYARD, Thomas Francis, Jr., (son of Thomas Francis Bayard, Sr., and grandson of James Asheton Bayard, Jr.),
a Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., June 4, 1868;
attended the common schools of Wilmington and St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H.;
graduated from Yale University in 1890; a student at the Yale Law School in
1890 and 1891; admitted to the Delaware bar in 1893 and commenced practice in
Wilmington; moved to New York City, and was appointed an assistant corporation
counsel in 1897; practiced law in New York until September 1901, when he
returned to Wilmington, Del., to practice law; served as chairman of the
Democratic State committee 1906-1916; solicitor of the city of Wilmington
1917-1919; elected on November 7, 1922, as a Democrat to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Josiah O. Wolcott; on
the same day was also elected for the full term commencing March 4, 1923, and
served from November 8, 1922, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1928; resumed the practice of law in Wilmington, Del.;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1930; died in Wilmington, Del., July 12, 1942; interment in Old Swedes
Cemetery.
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