David Bard
American politician
title: "David Bard" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1744-births", "1815-deaths", "politicians-from-adams-county,-pennsylvania", "presbyterians-from-pennsylvania", "democratic-republican-party-united-states-representatives-from-pennsylvania", "people-from-huntingdon-county,-pennsylvania", "people-from-bedford-county,-pennsylvania", "princeton-university-alumni", "19th-century-united-states-representatives", "18th-century-united-states-representatives"] description: "American politician" topic_path: "people/1740s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bard" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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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.
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| state=Pennsylvania | district=10 | before=At large on a general ticket:
John Smilie and
William Montgomery | after=Henry Woods | years=1795–1799 | state=Pennsylvania | district=4 | before=Isaac Van Horne and Robert Brown | after=Hugh Glasgow | years=1803–1805 alongside John Andre Hanna 1805–1813 alongside Robert Whitehill | state=Pennsylvania | district=9 | before=Isaac Griffin | after=Thomas Burnside | years=1813–1815
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