Bayard Family,

James Asheton Bayard (1767-1815), a graduate of Princeton College (1784), served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware (1797-1803); as U.S. Senator from Delaware (1805-13); as a member of the U.S. negotiating committee at the Treaty of Ghent (1813-14); and as a member of the U.S. Commission to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Great Britain (1814-1815).

Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868), son of James Asheton Bayard, also graduated from Princeton College (1814); was mayor of Wilmington, Delaware (1832-1835); U.S. Senator from Delaware (1836-39, 1840-45); Chief Justice of Delaware (1839-41); Brigadier General in the Delaware State Militia (1846); and the American charge d'affaires in Belgium (1850-53).