Morton Shelley Bailey (July 3, 1855 – March 16, 1922) was an American politician who served in the

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from the 14th district from 1891 to 1893 and as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1909 to 1922.D. F. Stackelbeck, ''Bench & Bar of Colorado'' (1917), p. 47. Born in

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, Bailey received an

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from

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in Pennsylvania in 1880, and was admitted to the Colorado Bar in 1882. Bailey married Lutie Wilkin in Denver in September 1888. He was a judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of Colorado from 1892 to 1908. Following Bailey's death, Governor

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appointed former justice John C. Campbell to the seat. The

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political commentator

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is a descendant through his mother, Bailey's great-granddaughter, Anne Purvis Bailey.

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