Smyrna times., 1922-11-29
BAYARD TAKES OATH JUNIOR
us. SENATOR FROM DELAWARE
THE FIFTH OF HIS FAMILY TO
OCCUPY A SEAT IN THAT BODY
His Induction Watched and Applauded
By His Friends-Is Senator for
Both the Long and Short Term


Thomas F.Bayard became the junior
United States senator from Delaware
at 1.2O p. M, last Tuesday, following
a delay of a day, Monday, when the
Senate adjourned out of respect to |
the late Senator Watson, of Georgia. |
Further delays were caused by the |
discussion in regard to the seating of |
Mrs. w. H. FELTON,, of Georgia, for a
day, who was appointed by Governor
Hardwick to serve until the election,
and by the Senate recessing to at
tend the joint session to receive the
address of President Harding on the
ship subsidy bill. Immediately fol-
lowing the return of the Senate to the
state chamber Senator-elect Bayard
and Senators Reed and Pepper, of
Pennsylvania, took the oath. Sena-
tor Bayard was escorted to the ros-
trum by Senator L. Heisler Ball. Sen
ator Bayard answered his first call
shortly after he was sworn in, when
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, sug-
gested the absence of a quorum in
connection with the seating for day
of Mrs. FELTON,.
The United States Senator-elect
from Delaware, Thomas F. Bayard, is
the fifth of his name and the fourth
in direct descent to occupy a seat IN
that body. There are to be found also
in this distinguished family a Mayor
of New York in the seventeenth CEN
tury, a member of the Continental
Congress, and holders of high judicial
office. The last previous Bayard who
sat in the Senate, Thomas Francis
Bayard, was Secretary of State under
President Cleveland, and he was also
the first Minister from the United
States to Great Britain who held the
rank of Ambassador. 1t is a record
of public service sustained through
several generations of which there are
few comparable instances in the his
tory of the United States. The Adams
family of Massachusetts offers par
allel record of continued achievement
Il and a similar inheritance may be OBJ
served in the family histories of the
H Harrisons and the Wadsworths.
H The Bayard lines traces back to
II French Huguenot strain which wa
Il mixed with Dutch blood when Samue
II Bayard married Peter Stuyvesant'
II sister. He died in Amsterdam, Hol
II land, and his three sons were brough
II to New Amsterdam by their mother
III One of these sons, Nicholas, becam
III secretary to the New Netherlands, ,an
III later of English New York. He Wa
HI chosen Mayor of the city in 1865. Hi
III brother Peter was the ancestor of tn
III distinguished Bayards of the ne2
HI two centuries.
HI John Bayard, third in descent frol
III him, was one of the most unselfish pt
III triots of the Revolution. A success
full Philadelphia merchant, he spei
his fortune in supplying the COntil
I entail troops with arms and in fifth
out privateers. He was member
the Continental Congress and stan'
Federalist.
His brother, DR.. James A. Bayar
was the father of the first member
the family who was sent to the Unit
States Senate. This was James Ash
ton Bayard, Federahst leader, wi
was elected to the House of Represe
tatives in 1895 and to the Senate
1905, where he served until 1913.
the Presidential contest of 1900,
which the choice of President al
Vice-President went to the House,
was his vote that made jefferson Chi
Executive over Aaron Burr.
James Asheton Bayard, his sc
served in the Senate from 1851 TO 18
and again from 1867 to 1869, as
Democrat. Another son, Richard He
. ry, also represented Delaware in t
. Senate, but as a Whig. He held off
from 1886 to 1845.
The son of James A. Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard, father of
uto Senator-elect, had a brilliant care
1t was not intended that he shOl
9'' carry on the public service traditi
nth of the family. He was to enter bu
led ness, but his elder brother died you
ght and he succeeded to the tradition
we'd obligation.
hen With his father he opposed war
vas 1861 as a Free Democrat. Neitl
rry took any part in it. In 1869 he
the lowed his father to the Senate, be,
, of elected by the same Legislature VIII
ges. gave James A. Bayard second tel
drs. He was a conspicuous candidate
|, to the Presidential nomination at the C
ded, ventions of 1880 and 1884. Clevel;
arp appointed him Secretary of State,
uto- in his second term Ambassador
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