Death and Legacy
After spending several months in Europe, Bayard returned home in the summer of 1815. During the trip he developed an inflamed throat and became critically ill. He lived only five days after his return and died at Wilmington. He was originally buried on Bohemia Manor, in Cecil County, Maryland. In 1842 his remains were removed, along with those of his father-in-law, Richard Bassett, and reburied in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery at Wilmington. Bayard was the father of two U.S. Senators, Richard H. Bayard and James A. Bayard, Jr., grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. and great grandfather of another, Thomas F. Bayard, Jr..
He was sometimes known as The Chevalier, the Goliath of his Party, and High Priest of the Constitution.
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