John Bailey (Massachusetts politician)

John Bailey (1786  June 26, 1835) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

John Bailey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 10th district
In office
December 13, 1824  March 3, 1831
Preceded byFrancis Baylies
Succeeded byHenry A. S. Dearborn
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1814–1817
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1831–1834
Personal details
Born1786 (1786)
Stoughton, Massachusetts (now Canton, Massachusetts)
DiedJune 26, 1835(1835-06-26) (aged 48–49)
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Political partyAdams-Clay Republican

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. Bailey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served from 1814 to 1817; he 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.[1]

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. He was a member of the Massachusetts State senate, 1831–1834, and ran as the unsuccessful Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834. He died in Dorchester, Massachusetts the following year.

See also

  •  Biography portal

References

  • United States Congress. "John Bailey (id: B000041)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Party political offices
Preceded by
John Quincy Adams
Anti-Masonic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts
1834
Succeeded by
None
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Francis Baylies
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833
Succeeded by
Henry A. S. Dearborn
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