John Bailey (1786June 26, 1835) was an American politician who served as a member of the
United States House of Representatives from
Massachusetts from 1824 to 1831.
Biography
Born in
Stoughton, Massachusetts (in that part of Stoughton which later became
Canton
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Administrative division terminology
* Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland
* Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French
Arts and ent ...
). Bailey graduated from
Brown University
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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
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in
Washington, D.C. from 1817 until 1823.
Bailey was elected a member of the
American Antiquarian Society in 1816.
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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
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; 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
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.
Bailey ran as an Anti-Jacksonian
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in the Twenty-first Congress
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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.
Death
He died in Dorchester, Massachusetts
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the following year.
See also
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References
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1786 births
1835 deaths
19th-century American politicians
Anti-Masonic Party politicians from Massachusetts
Brown University alumni
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Massachusetts National Republicans
Members of the American Antiquarian Society
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
People from Stoughton, Massachusetts
Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island