Dewey C. Bailey

{{short description|American politician from Colorado}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Dewey C. Bailey

| image = File:Mayor Dewey C Bailey.jpg

| caption = Baile in 1900

| birth_date = {{birth date|1860|9|1}}

| birth_place = Coldwater, Michigan

| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|12|17|1860|9|1}}

| death_place =Denver, Colorado

| spouse = {{marriage|Adella Brown Bailey|1880}}{{cite web |title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bailey |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailey1.html |website=The Political Graveyard |accessdate=3 November 2019}}

| order = 32nd

| office = Mayor of Denver

| term_start = 1919

| term_end = 1923

| predecessor = William Fitz Randolph Mills

| successor = Benjamin F. Stapleton

| party =

}}

Dewey Crossman Bailey (September 1, 1860 – December 17, 1937) was an American politician who served as the Republican mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1919 to 1923.{{cite web |title=History of the Office of the Mayor |url=https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/mayors-office/about-the-office-of-the-mayor/history-of-the-office.html |website=City and County of Denver |accessdate=1 September 2018}} Among the other events of his administration, in August 1920 Denver streetcar workers strike, causing a multi-day riot and requiring the insertion of federal troops.

Before serving as mayor, Bailey was a United States Marshall for Colorado from 1897 to 1915.{{cite web|url=http://www.graftersclub.com/bios/Bailey.asp |title=Blonger Bros. - The Grafters Club: Dewey C. Bailey |publisher=The Grafters Club |date=1923-03-27 |accessdate=2013-07-29}} He died of heart disease in 1937.{{cite news|title=Dewey Bailey Dies In Denver |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/25019494|newspaper=Greeley Daily tribune|date=December 18, 1937|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = December 11, 2014 }} {{Open access}}