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Delaware Delegation

This is one of the 50 delegations in the convention, accounting for 6 of 713 people who took part.

Members (6):

Name Visualize Details Delegations
James A. Bayard Visualize "(November 15, 1799 -- June 13, 1880) Bayard was a(n) lawyer, public servant, and American politician. Bayard was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a United States district attorney for Delaware (1838 -1843). Bayard was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1851 and was reelected in 1857 (March 4, 1851 - January 29, 1864), when he resigned. He was appointed in 1867 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy by the death of George Read Riddle and was reelected as a Democrat (April 5, 1867 - March 3, 1869). During his time in Congress, he served as chairmen on the Committee on Engrossed Bills (32nd Congress), Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads (36th Congress), on the Committee on Public Buildings (33rd and 34th Congresses), on the Committee on Judiciary (35th and 36th Congresses) and on the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (35th congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B000248]" Delaware Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Delaware Delegation (This negotiation)
Thomas F. Bayard Visualize (October 29, 1828 — September 28, 1898) Bayard was an American politician and lawyer. Thomas Bayard was born in Wilmington, Delaware to James A. Bayard, Jr., Delaware Senator. He practiced law in Delaware and Pennsylvania until the expiration of his father’s Senate term in 1869, when he moved back to Delaware to run for Congress. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, where he served from March 4, 1869 to March 6, 1885. While in Congress, he served as President pro temper of the Senate and chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills. He resigned in March 1885 to serve as Secretary of State. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000253] Delaware Delegation (This negotiation)
Benjamin T. Biggs Visualize (October 1, 1821 — December 25, 1893) Biggs was a teacher, businessman, and public servant. Benjamin Biggs was born in New Castle County, Delaware and moved to New Jersey to attend school. He served as a member of the State constitutional convention in 1853, and later became Governor of Delaware from 1887 to 1891. Biggs was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-First and Forty-Second Congresses from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000457] Delaware Delegation (This negotiation)
James R. Lofland Visualize (November 2, 1823 — February 10, 1894) Lofland was an American politician and lawyer. James Lofland was born in Milford, Delaware and graduated from Delaware College in 1845. In his early political career, he served as the Secretary of the State Senate (1849), and as a member of the State constitutional convention (1853). Lofland was elected as a Republican to the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000398] Delaware Delegation (This negotiation)
Eli M. Saulsbury Visualize (December 29, 1817 — March 22, 1893) Saulsbury was an American politician and lawyer. Eli Sauisbury was born in Kent County, Delaware and attended school in Pennsylvania. Saulsbury was part of a political family, he was the brother of Willard Saulsbury, who served as a Senator, and uncle of Williard Saulsbury, Jr., who also served in Congress. Eli Saulsbury served in the Delaware State House of Representatives from 1853-1854. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Second Congress, and was reelected the following term. He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1889. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000072] Delaware Delegation (This negotiation)
Willard Saulsbury Visualize (2 June, 1820 -- 6 April, 1892) Saulsbury was an American lawyer and politician. Saulsbury was born in Mispillion Hundred, Kent Country, Del.. After admittance to the bar, Saulsbury practiced in Georgetown, Delaware and became the Delaware attorney general from 1850-1855. Saulsbury was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1858 and was reelected in 1864, serving from March 4th, 1859 to March 3rd, 1871. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp] Delaware Delegation (This negotiation) , Delaware Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Delaware Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Delaware Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Delaware Delegation (United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65)