Warren Worth Bailey (January 8, 1855 – November 9, 1928) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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and a Georgist publisher. He and other Georgists led in framing the U.S. income tax law of 1916, which exempted most labor income and targeted land rent.Gaffney, Mason. "New Life in Old Cities: Georgist Policies and Population Growth in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Other Cities, 1890-1930". Emended 10-22-2006. http://masongaffney.org/publications/2006_New_Life_in_Old_Cities.pdf

Early life

Warren W. Bailey was born in New Winchester, Indiana. He moved to

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with his parents in 1863 and settled in

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. He attended the country schools, and worked as a telegrapher until 1875.

Newspaper work

He joined the '' Kansas News'' in Kansas, Illinois, and learned the printing trade. He was engaged in the publishing business with his brother at

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, in 1877. Subsequently, they purchased the '' Vincennes News'', which they published until 1887. He moved to Chicago in 1887 and became a member of the staff of the ''

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'' and later of the '' Evening Mail''. He moved to

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, in 1893 and published the ''Jonestown Democrat'', devoted to the single-tax principle.

Political life

Bailey was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1906. He was a delegate at large to the

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at Baltimore. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses. He was chairman of the

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during the Sixty-third Congress, and of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice during the Sixty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 and for election in 1920, 1922, and 1926. He unsuccessfully contested the election of Anderson Howell Walters to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He resumed journalism in Johnstown, where he died in 1928. Interment in

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References

Sources

The Political Graveyard

External links

Warren Worth Bailey Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
1855 births 1928 deaths People from Hendricks County, Indiana American newspaper publishers (people) Politicians from Johnstown, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Journalists from Pennsylvania Georgist politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub