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  Bard, Thomas Robert
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NameThomas Robert Bard
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, California , United States
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Born December 08, 1841
DiedMarch 05, 1915 (73 years)
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Infoborn in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., December 8, 1841; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Chambersburg Academy in 1858; studied law, but before completing his studies secured a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., later becoming assistant to the superintendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad; engaged in the grain business at Hagerstown, Md.; during the early part of the Civil War served as a volunteer Union scout during the invasions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the Confederates; moved to Ventura County, Calif., in 1864; member of the board of supervisors of Santa Barbara County 1868-1873; laid out the town of Hueneme; one of the commissioners appointed to organize Ventura County in 1871; director of the State board of agriculture in 1886 and 1887; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1899, and served from February 7, 1900, to March 3, 1905; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Fifty-seventh Congress), Committee on Irrigation (Fifty-eighth Congress); died at his home, ’Berylwood,’ in Hueneme, Ventura County, Calif., March 5, 1915; interment in the family cemetery on his estate.


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