Thomas F. Bayard
Former United States Secretary of State
Thomas Francis Bayard was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as the United States Senator from Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for... Wikipedia
Born: October 29, 1828, Wilmington, DE
Died: September 28, 1898 (age 69 years), Dedham, MA
Children: Thomas F. Bayard and Florence Bayard Hilles
Party: Democratic Party
Grandchild: Alexis I. du Pont Bayard
Previous offices: United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1893–1897), United States Secretary of State (1885–1889), and Senator, DE (1869–1885)
Books: Genealogy of the McKean Family of Pennsylvania: With a Biography of the Hon. Thomas McKean, "Unwritten Law.": An Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 28, 1877, Speech of Hon. Thomas Francis Bayard of Delaware in Favor of the Resolution Withdrawing from United States Notes Legal-tender Power in the Senate of the United States, January 27, 1880, and more