Thomas Bayly (September 13, 1775 – 1829) was a slave owner and

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from the eighth district of

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, serving from 1817 to 1823. Born at the ''Wellington'' estate near

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, Bayly attended private schools and later graduated from Princeton College in 1797. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in

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and

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Counties, Maryland. Bayly served as a member of the

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from 1804 to 1814. He was elected as a

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to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth congresses, serving from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1823. He resumed the practice of law afterwards, and died at his home, ''Wellington'' in 1829. He is interred in the family cemetery on the grounds of his estate.

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