David Bard
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David Bard (1744 – March 12, 1815) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania. Born at Carroll's Delight in Adams County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton College (New Jersey) in 1773.
He studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Donegal Presbytery in 1777. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry at Lower Conotheague in 1779, and was a missionary in Virginia and west of the Allegheny Mountains. From 1786 to 1789, he was a pastor at Bedford, Pennsylvania, and later at Frankstown (now Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania).
Bard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1799.
He was elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Alexandria, Pennsylvania. He was interred in Sinking Valley Cemetery, near the hamlet of Arch Spring.
See also
- United States Congress. . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
| U.S. House of Representatives | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byAt large on a general ticket: Thomas Fitzsimons John W. Kittera Thomas Hartley Thomas Scott James Armstrong Peter G. Muhlenberg Andrew Gregg Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg Daniel Hiester William Irvine William Findley John Smilie and William Montgomery | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district 1795–1799 | Succeeded byHenry Woods |
| Preceded byIsaac Van Horne and Robert Brown | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1803–1805 alongside John Andre Hanna 1805–1813 alongside Robert Whitehill | Succeeded byHugh Glasgow |
| Preceded byIsaac Griffin | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district 1813–1815 | Succeeded byThomas Burnside |