James A. Bayard, Delaware Senator and the Treaty of Ghent

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1767-August 6, 1815.

Politician from Wilmington, Delaware.  U.S. Representative and Senator.  As a Federalist, he opposed "Mr. Madison's War" and urged caution as the war approached.  he was particularly concerned with Delaware's lack of preparedness for war in both military and vulnerability of the coast.

On June 17, 1812, he was one of  the 13 U.S. Senators who voted against the declaration of war.  But after the war came, he supported it.

He was the only Federalist to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent.  President Madison afterwards offered him a post as minister to Russia, but Bayard declined it saying that a Federalist could hardly represent a Democratic-Republican government.

He spent several months in Europe, but became sick and died just five days after returning to the United States.

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