The daily Republican., 1902-11-18
SECOND CLAYTON.


SECOND CLAYTON.
''Thomas Clayton was the second
of the three Delaware Claytons to
enter the Senate. He succeeded
Rodney, but resigned after three
years service. He was Il repre-
sentative in the Fourteenth Con-
gress and held numerous state
Offices, resigninS from the Senate
to go on the bench, He was for
years chief justice of Delaware.
His successor i'll the Senate bore Il
name which is as honorel in Mary
land as in Delaware. Louis McLme
was born i'll Smyrna, Del, and died
in Baltimore i'll 1857. He began life
as a midshipman in the United
States Navy, read law under the
elder Bayard, was private in the
! war of 1872 and served at the de-
fense Of Baltimore in 1911. AS
democrat he was elected to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth con-
gresses, and was senator in the
Twentieth and Twenty-first, re-
signing in 1929, when appointed
ministerto England by President
Jackson. He was also secretary OF
the treasury and secretary Of state
i'll Jackson's cabinet, retiring from
political life in 1884 and removing
to Maryland. He was president of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
for ten years and minister to
England under Polk. In 1917 he
took up his residence i'll Cecil county
and his last publ ic service was rs IL
member Of the Maryland consti-
tutiOnal convention of 1850 Louis
McLane was the father of Robert
NJ. McLane, Of Maryland, whose
career as a statesman and diplomat
almost parailellel that of his father.
Arnold Naudain, Of Odessa, filled
out NcLane's term, anf was re-
elected by the Legislature.
He was wing Il Princeton gr ad-
uate, and died ut Oles3l in 1872.
He was barely OF constit utional age
when made senator. Upon his res
ignatiOu in 1886 Naudain's seat was
taken by the second of the Bayarus
-Richar1 H., son Of james A., also
Princeton graduate and whIg,
who, III his turn resigned three
years later to become chief Justice
Of Delaware, vice John Middleton
Clayton, Bayard's resignation, dated
i'll September, was never brought
officially to the notice of the Senate,
and he resumed his seat in Decem-
ber, serving until 1915. Later lie
was charge dc affaircs to Belgium,
and died i'll Philadelphia soon after
the close of the civil war. John NJ.
Clayton succeeded Bayarl, resign
ing III 1919, and John Wales, of
Wilmington, was senator in class |
for the remainder Of Clayton 5 un-
expired term Then another
Buyard was eIected-James A., the
second, brother of Richard II. and
father Of Thomas Francis Bayard.
He was II wing, and wA5 etectaI
for three terms, resisninG- i'll lSG+,
soon after the beginning Of his third
term.
George Read Riddle, of Whining
ton, civil engineer aud lawyer Of
wide repute, who had beal a rep.
resentati"e in three congresses,
was chosen to ilil out Bayaru's un-
expired term, and upon his death |
at Washin gton in 1867 Bayard was
by Gov Cove Salisbury
10 the vacancy. AT the session Of
the Legislature in 1909 Blvard
was elected for the less tnan three
months remaining Of tn. term TO
which he had been originally elect
ed in 1868, and on the same day
his son was elected for The sue.
ceedipg term-an incident which
stands alone in American Dolitica!
history. From Mar h !, 1869. un-
iii his retirement from the Senate
in 1883 to become secretary OF sta te
n the first cabIGct Of President
ieye,and, the last of Della ware
BAY ards WAS noted figure IN
latIunaI politics. represent atiye
ypc Of the Delaware men in the
nlted StatGs Senate. His career,
u public lite was closed during
second administration
Is the first ambassador to the
yourt OF st. James. Bayard had q
worthy successor in George Gray
mother Princeton man, who served
'ut the formers term and was twice
elected TO the Senate. The seat
by Senator Gray has been
aCaut since his retirement IN 1899,
nd the latter, nov on the Federal
'encE by appointment Of President
Mckinley, and at the head of the
Gal strike arbitration committee
y appointment of President Roose-
cit, has ably discharged import
ut international missions.
BAssETT STOOD FOREMOST
Richard Bassett, also bound TO
Iaryland thrOu Oh residence IN
'ecil county, heads b claware's
enators of class 2. AS a lawyer,
federal Legislator, Governor of
Delaware and United States circuit
udge, Bassett stands foremost in
arly state history. Before the
evolution he was practitioner III
early all the courts on the Eastern
hore, as well as in his three
over counties" At t!le end of his
our years of service in the Senate,
'assett was succeeded by John
lining, q somewhat strenuous and
)quacious statesman, who was
luch in evidence in the Continental
'ongIess and the House of Repre-
at it's earlier sessions He
esigned in 1873, and Joshua Clay
on, who followed him, died in
aW months, CLAYTON was a phy-