Bailey, John, 1786-1835

John Bailey (1786-1835) was a United States Congressman. He graduated from Brown University Rhode Island, in 1807 and was tutor and librarian, (1807-14). He was a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, (1814-17) and clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., (1817-23). In 1824, he was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to fill the vacancy thus caused in this Congress, reelected as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congresses, serving until 1831. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he served as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate, (1831-34).