A Guide to the Letter from Richard Henry Bayard to John W. Williams, 1836 December 31 Bayard, Richard Henry, Letter to John W. Williams, 1836 December 31 10956

A Guide to the Letter from Richard Henry Bayard to John W. Williams, 1836 December 31

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Accession number

10956

Title

Letter from Richard Henry Bayard to John W. Williams 1836 December 31

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of one letter

Language

English

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Preferred Citation

Richard Henry Bayard, Letter, 1836, Accession #10956, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This letter was purchased by the Library from Jeanette Alford of Springfield, Virginia, on June 4, 1990.

Biographical/Historical Information

Richard H. Bayard was born in Wilmington, Delaware on September 23, 1796; graduated from Princeton College in 1814; and became the first mayor of Wilmington in 1832. He was elected as a Whig to the United States Senate, filling a vacancy, and served from June 17, 1836 to September 19, 1839, when he resigned to become chief justice of Delaware. He served until January 12, 1814, when he resigned, having again been elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy left by his own resignation. He served until March 3, 1845, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1868.

John A. Bayard, Sr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 18, 1767 and graduated from Princeton College in 1784. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. He was then elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy, and was reelected in 1805 and 1811, serving from November 13, 1804 to March 3, 1813, when he resigned. He died in Wilmington, Delaware on August 6, 1815.

Scope and Content Information

In this letter of December 31, 1835, Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868) writes to John W. Williams, thanking him for his kind interest in the reputation of his father, James Asheton Bayard, Sr. (1767-1815), and himself vindicating his father from certain "charges contained in the posthumous works of Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson," apparently concerning events in the election of 1800.