Taber Davis Bailey (April 5, 1874 – January 17, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician from

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. Bailey, a

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from

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, represented

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in the

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for three non-consecutive terms between 1912 and 1924. Bailey was born on April 5, 1874, in

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. His father, Charles Bailey was a prominent attorney in Penobscot County and was elected to the

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in 1870. Taber Bailey grew up in Bangor and graduated from

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in 1892. He then attended

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, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1896. After graduating from Bowdoin, Bailey began studying law in the Bangor law firm of

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and his father, Charles A. Bailey. Two years later he was admitted to practice law in Maine courts."Hon. Taber D. Bailey Candidate for Governor", ''Houlton Times'' (August 13, 1919), p. 3.

Political experience

Bailey was first elected to the

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at the age of 23 in 1897. He served on the City Council until 1900. A year later, he was elected President of the Bangor Common Council. In 1902 and 1903, Bailey served as Bangor City Solicitor. In 1912, Bailey was elected to his first term in the

. He left the Senate again until his election in 1916, after which he was chosen as

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by his colleagues. In 1919, he launched an unsuccessful bid for the office of Governor of Maine. He was again elected to the Senate in 1922, to his third and ultimately final term. He died in Bangor in 1938.James Terry White, ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', Vol. 27 (1939), p. 360.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Taber D. 1874 births People from Old Town, Maine Presidents of the Maine Senate Republican Party Maine state senators Bowdoin College alumni Bangor City Council members Bangor High School (Maine) alumni 1938 deaths