The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1885-03-26
The CABINET
A Bfograplscal Sketch of Mr.
CIeyelaaa;s POIlticai
Family.
THOMAS F. BAYARD.

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Mr.. Bayard was born at Will
mington, Del, October 20, 1929. He
was chieGy educated at Flushing
School, and his early training was for
mercantile life. After having some
experience in business IN New York
he returned to Deleware and studied
law with his father, Hon. James A.
Bayard, who was then IN the senate.
He was admitted to the Bar in 1851,
aad in 1853 he was appointed United
States District Attorney fer Dela
ware, but resigned in 1854 and vent
to live in Philadelphia, where he re.
NAMED till 1856, when he returned
to Wilmington, where he remained
through the civil war, practicing his
profession. In the winter Of 1868 y
he was elected to the Senate to sue
coed his father, and was reelected
In 1879 and 1881. In 1876 he was
member of the Electoral Commits
sion. Mr.. Bayard is the fourth of his
family who have served in the Sen
ate. His grandfather, James Ashton
Bayard, was elected to the Senate
from Deleware in 1904 and served
till 1913, when President Madison
appointed him one of the Commits
sions to negotiate the Treaty Of
Ghent. His uncle, Richard H. Bay
ard, was elected to the Senate from
Delaware in 1886 and again in lS4l.
His father, James A., served in the
Senate from 1851 to 1869
DANIEL MANNING.
Mr.. Manning was horn in Albany,
N. Y, August l6, 1881. His parent
age was of Irish. English and Dutch
extraction. He was poor boy, and
early opportunities for schooling
were very limited. At IL years Of
age he went to work as an office boy
at the establishment Of the Albany
Atlas, which was afterwards merged
into the Albany Argus, with which
paper he has ever since. IN one ca
pacity or another. been connected.
In.1873 he assumed sole charge OF
the Argus, and was elected president
of the company, which position he
!, ct holds, though he has done little
or no writing for some time. He was
member of the Democratic State
Convention OF 1874 that nominated
Samuel j. Tllden for Governor and
was a delegate to the st. Louis Con
yention OF 1876 that nominated Mr..
Tilden for President. He has been
member of the Democratic State
Committee since 1876. Was it's sec
retarv IN 1879 and 1880, and was
elected chairman In 1881, which
place he now fills. He was warmly
Interested in the nomination OF Mr.
Cleveland for President at Chicago
last July, and it is generally con-
ceded that he showed great skill IN
the convention as the head Of the
New York delegation. Mr.. Manning
has been active and successful out
side Of journalism and politics. He
has long been director of the Alba
ny and Susquehanna Railroad Com
pany and is president Of the Nation
al Commercial Bank OF Albany, of
which he was first director and then
vice president. He Is also Park
! Commissioner of Albany and is di'
rector of the Albany Electric Light
Company.
LUCIUs Q. c. LAMAR
Mr.. Lamar was born at Oxford,
Putnam County. Ca, September IL,
1925, and received his early school
ing IN his native town. He grad
uated at Emory College, Georgia, IN
lS45. He studied law at Macon, Ga,
and was admitted to the bar in lS47.
He moved to Oxford. Miss. IN lS49,
and was elected Adjunct Professor
of Mathematics in the Mississippi
State University. Dir. A. I. Bledsoe,
editor of the Southern Review, being
the senior professor. He resigned
in 1850 and went to Coylngton, Ca,
where he devoted himself to the
practice Of law. In 1858 he was
elected to the G. orgia Legislature
and In the following year returned
to Mississippi. where hc settled on
a plantation in Lafayette County.
He was elected to the Thirty fifth
and Thirty sixth Congresses and re-
signed in 1860. He entered the Con
federate army in 1861 as Lieuten
ant Colonel of the Nineteenth Mis-
sissippi Volunteers, and was soon
promoted to the Colonelcy. In 1868
he was sent to Russia by the Con
federate Government on an impor-
tant diplomatic mission. Hereturn
ed to Mississippi at the close of the
war, and in 1866 was elected Pro.
fessor of Political Economy and
Social Science in the University OF
that State. A year later he was
transferred to the Prolessorship OF
Law He was electee to the Forty
third Congress and reelected TO the
Forty fourth. In the winter OF
1876 Z he was elected to the Senate,
where has since served.
AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND.
Mr.. Garland was born in Upton
County, Tenn, June Ii, 1882. The
following year his parent moved te
Arkansas, where he has made his
home ever since, and which State ht
has represented IN the Senate since
1876. He was edutated in st. Mary,