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congresses, serving from March 4, 1815, to March 3. 1813; elected to fourteenth and f'lteenth congresses, serving from March 4, 1S15. to March 3, 1819; elected to seven- teenth and three succeeding congresses serving from March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1S29; in all, served in ten congresses, twen- ty years; died in New Kent county, Vir- ginia, February 26, 1841.

Bay ley, Thomas Henry, son of Thomas M. Uayley and Margaret P. Cropper, his wife, daughter of Gen. John Cropper, born ii» Accomac county, Virginia, December 11, 1810; attended the common schools, and the University or Virginia, from which he grad- uated ; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1830, and engaged in practice; was mem- ber of house of delegates from 1835 to 1840, when he resigned on being elected judge of the circuit court ; elected as a States Rights Democrat to Oie twenty-eighth congress, to till a vacancy occasioned by the resignation oJ* Henry A. Wise: elected to the twenty- ninth and five succeeding congresses, serv- ing from May 0, 1844, until his death, June 23. 1856, at Mount Custis, Accomac county, \irginia. He was descended from Richard r.ayley, of "Craddock," an early settler in Accomac.

Baylcy, Thomas Monteagle, son of Thomas I'ayley and Anne Drummond, his wife, daughter of Richard Drummond. born in Accomac county, Virginia, September 2. ^775 • was graduated from Princeton Col- lege in 1794; entered public life in 1798 and served several years in each of the two houses of the state legislature, as a Demo- cratic Republican : served as a colonel of militia during the war of 1812; elected to

thirteenth congress, and served from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815; again elected to the state legislature, and served several terms; died at Mount Custis, Accomac county, Virginia, January 6, 1834. His tombstone is at Hill's farm in Accomac county. (See William and Mary College Quarterly, VII., p. 107J.

Beale, James Madison Hite, born at Mt Airy, Shenandoah county, Virginia, Febru- ary 7, 1786; pursued preparatory studies; elected as a Democrat to twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses (March 4, 1833- March 3, 1837) I elected to thirty-first and thirty-second congresses, serving from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1853, and then declining a renomination ; died in Putnam cc unty. West Virginia, August 2, 1866.

Bedinger, Henry, born near Shepherds- town, Virginia (now in Jefferson county. West Virginia), in 1810, son of Major George Michael Dedinger, born in Virginia, an early pioneer in Kentucky, adjutant at the battle of Blue Licks in 1782, an Indian spy during the revolutionary war, major commanding a battalion of sharpshooters uiuler St. Clair, member of Kentucky legis- i.iture, and ccngressman from that state. The son received a classical education, stud- .ed law and engaged in practice, first at Shepherdstown and later at Charlestown. In 1845 he succeeded General George Rust, his brother-in-law and law partner, in con- gress, where he was distinguished for his eloquence as a debater, and he was re- elected. In 1853 he was appointed charge daffairs to Denmark, and afterward became minister resident. During his ministerial service he was successful in bringing about

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