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John Bailey (Massachusetts politician)

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	John Bailey
state1	Massachusetts
district1	10th
term_start1	December 13, 1824
term_end1	March 3, 1831
preceded1	Francis Baylies
succeeded1	Henry A. S. Dearborn
office2	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
term2	1814–1817
office3	Member of the Massachusetts Senate
term3	1831–1834
birth_date
birth_place	Stoughton, Massachusetts (now Canton, Massachusetts)
death_date
death_place	Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
party	Adams-Clay Republican

John Bailey (1786June 26, 1835) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts for three terms and part of a fourth from 1824 to 1831.

Biography

Born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (in that part of Stoughton which later became Canton). Bailey graduated from Brown University in 1807. Bailey worked as a tutor and librarian in Providence, Rhode Island from 1807 until 1814.

State House

Bailey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served from 1814 to 1817. He then served as a clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C. from 1817 until 1823.

Bailey was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.

Congress

Bailey presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Eighteenth Congress, but his election was contested on residency requirements. A House resolution on March 18, 1824, declared he was not entitled to the seat.

Upon returning to Canton, Bailey was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican. His subsequent re-elections allowed him to serve the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. During his tenure Bailey chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State.

Bailey ran as an Anti-Jacksonian in the Twenty-first Congress but was not a candidate for renomination in 1830.

State Senate

He was a member of the Massachusetts State senate from 1831 to 1834, and ran as the unsuccessful Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834.

Death

He died in Dorchester, Massachusetts on June 26, 1835.

References

[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistb American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]

Wikipedia Source

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