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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn BAILEY
(1786-1835)
BAILEY, John, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in 1786 in that part of
Stoughton, Norfolk County, Mass.; which in 1797 was set apart and
named Canton; was graduated from Brown University, Providence,
R.I., in 1807; tutor and librarian at Providence, R.I., 1807-1814;
member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives,
1814-1817; clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C.,
1817-1823; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the
Eighteenth Congress, but the election was contested on the ground
that he was not a resident of the district he purported to
represent, and by resolution of March 18, 1824, the House declared
he was not entitled to the seat; returned to Canton, Mass., and was
subsequently elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to fill the
vacancy thus caused in this Congress; reelected as an Adams to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth, and as an Anti-Jacksonian in the
Twenty-first Congresses (December 13, 1824-March 3, 1831); chair,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Nineteenth
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1830; member of
the State senate, 1831-1834; unsuccessful Anti-Masonic candidate
for Governor in 1834; died in Dorchester, Mass., June 26, 1835;
interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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