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Bayard (THOMAS FRANCIS an cessive)

THOMAS FRANCIS, an cessive generations represented the State He came of a family which for four suc- The first of his ancestors to settle in that State was Peter, a son of Petrus Bayard, of Delaware in the United States Senate. probably a collateral descendant of the celebrated Chevalier Bayard and Anne C. Stuyvesant, the latter a sister of Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Gover- C. Stuyvesant, the latter a sister of Peter nors of New Netherlands. Mr. Bayard's a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. a member of the convention that framed 1851 and practiced law until 1868, when he succeeded his father, James A. Bayard, in the United States Senate. In 1872 he received 15 votes for the presidential nomination, and in the conventhe Democratic National Convention of tion of 1876, 31 votes, which he turned over to Samuel J. Tilden. In 1880 and again in 1884 his name was voted on in the National convention of his party.

In 1885 he was chosen by President Cleveland as Secretary of State, and on Cleveland's second election, in 1892, he was appointed United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, being the first to bear that title. While holding was appointed United States Ambassador Cleveland's second election, in 1892, he to the Court of St. James, being the this high office he won many friends feeling in both social and government circles.

Sept. 28, 1898. this high office he won many friends BAYAZID BAYAZID. See BAJAZET.