John Bailey (Massachusetts politician)

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| state1 =Massachusetts

| district1 =10th

| term_start1 =December 13, 1824

| term_end1 =March 3, 1831

| preceded1 =Francis Baylies

| succeeded1 =Henry A. S. Dearborn

| office2 =Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

| term2 =1814–1817

| office3 =Member of the Massachusetts Senate

| term3 =1831–1834

| birth_date ={{birth date text|1786}}

| birth_place =Stoughton, Massachusetts (now Canton, Massachusetts)

| death_date ={{death date and age|1835|6|26|1786}}

| death_place =Dorchester, Massachusetts

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| party =Adams-Clay Republican

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John Bailey (1786{{spnd}}June 26, 1835) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts for three terms and part of a fourth from 1824 to 1831.

Biography

Born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (in that part of Stoughton which later became Canton). Bailey graduated from Brown University in 1807. Bailey worked as a tutor and librarian in Providence, Rhode Island from 1807 until 1814.

= State House =

Bailey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served from 1814 to 1817. He then served as a clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C. from 1817 until 1823.

Bailey was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistb American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]

= 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. 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.

Bailey ran as an Anti-Jacksonian in the Twenty-first Congress but was not a candidate for renomination in 1830.

= State Senate =

He was a member of the Massachusetts State senate from 1831 to 1834, and ran as the unsuccessful Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834.