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BAYLY, Thomas Henry, (1810 - 1856)
BAYLY, Thomas Henry, (son of Thomas Monteagle Bayly), a Representative from Virginia; born at “Mount Custis,” the family estate, near Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., December 11, 1810; attended the common schools and was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1829; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Accomac County; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the Virginia house of delegates, 1836-1842; appointed brigadier general of the Twenty-first Brigade, Virginia Militia, in 1837 and served until 1842; elected judge of the superior court of law and chancery in 1842 and served until 1844; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A. Wise; reelected to the Twenty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from May 6, 1844, until his death on his estate, “Mount Custis,” near Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., June 23, 1856; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs(Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congress); interment in the family burying ground on his estate.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the US Congress 1774-Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
BAYLY, Thomas Monteagle (1775-1834),(father of Thomas Henry Bayly), a Representative from Virginia; born at Hills Farm, near Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., on March 26, 1775; attended Washington Academy, Maryland, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1794; studied law; was admitted to the bar about 1796 and commenced practice in Accomac County; also engaged in planting; member of the State house of delegates 1798-1801; member of the State senate 1801-1809; served during the War of 1812 as colonel of militia; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for renomination in 1814; resumed agricultural pursuits and the practice of law; again a member of the State house of delegates 1819, 1820, and 1828-1831; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830; died on his plantation, “Mount Custis,” near Accomac, Accomac County, Va., January 7, 1834; interment in the family cemetery on his estate,“Mount Custis.”
(Source: Biographical Directory of the US Congress 1774-Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
 BROWNE, Thomas Henry Bayly (1844-1892), a Representative from Virginia; born at Accomac Court House, Accomac County, Va., February 8, 1844; instructed by private tutors; attended Hanover and Bloomfield Academies in Virginia; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army; afterwards served as a private in Chew’s battery of the Stuart Horse Artillery; was surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865; was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1867; admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Accomac, Va.; elected prosecuting attorney for Accomac County in 1873; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Accomac, Va., August 27, 1892; interment in Mount Curtis Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the US Congress 1774-Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
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