American politician, son of the preceding, born at Wilmington, DE, on the 15th of November 1799; died at the same place, June 13, 1880. He studied and practiced law at Wilmington, and was United States attorney for his state during Van Buren’s Presidency. He entered the Senate in 1851, and was successively re-elected in 1857 and 1862. Mr. Bayard was a Democrat, a believer in state rights, and presided over that part of the national Democratic convention of 1860 which nominated J. C. Breckinridge for the Presidency in opposition to Douglas, thus giving the electoral vote to Lincoln. He was brother of Richard Henry Bayard. The two brothers, the father, James Asheton Bayard, Sr., Thomas F. (son of James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), and Governor Bassett, grandfather of the first two mentioned, occupied seats in the United States Senate.
