Francis Baylies

Jacksonian Representative of Massachusetts's 12th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

October 16, 1783 (69 years old)

Birthday

October 28, 1852

Death

Served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Served in various political parties: Federalist, Jackson Federalist, and Jacksonian
Served as Register of Probate for Bristol County from 1812 to 1820
Unsuccessful candidate for the Sixteenth Congress in 1818
Served in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827)
Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twentieth Congress in 1827
Served multiple terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827-1832, 1835)
Appointed as United States chargé d’affaires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1832
His term as chargé d’affaires was short due to unsettled conditions
Engaged in literary pursuits, including writing an historical memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth
Died in Taunton, Massachusetts, and was interred in the Old Plain Cemetery
Had a brother, William Baylies, who also served as a congressman
His great-grandfather, Thomas Baylies, was an ironmaster from England who immigrated to Boston
Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1810, commencing practice in Taunton, Massachusetts
Married to Elizabeth Moulton and had one child