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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBAILEY, Josiah William
(1873—1946)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1946
Party:
Democrat
BAILEY, Josiah William, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September 14, 1873; moved with his parents to Raleigh, N.C., in 1877; attended the public schools and Raleigh Male Academy; graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893; editor of the Biblical Recorder 1893-1907; member of the State board of agriculture 1896-1900; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; United States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina 1913-1921; member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commission in 1915; trustee of the University of North Carolina 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942, and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Raleigh on December 15, 1946; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Marcello, Ronald. “Senator Josiah Bailey, Harry Hopkins, and the WPA: A Prelude to the Conservative Coalition.” Southern Studies
22 (Winter 1983): 321-29; Moore, John R. Senator Josiah William Bailey of North Carolina: A Political Biography.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1968.
Marcello, Ronald E. “Senator Josiah Bailey, Harry Hopkins, and the WPA: A Prelude to the Conservative Coalition.” Southern Studies
22 (Winter 1983): 321-39.
Moore, John Robert. “Senator Josiah W. Bailey and the ‘Conservative Manifesto’ of 1937.” Journal of Southern History
31 (February 1965): 21-39.
___. Senator Josiah William Bailey of North Carolina: A Political Biography.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1968.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Josiah William Bailey, Late a Senator from North Carolina.
80th Cong., 1st sess., 1947. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1949.
Watson, Richard L., Jr. “A Southern Democratic Primary: Simmons Vs. Bailey in 1930.” North Carolina Historical Review
42 (January 1965): 21-46.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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