Joseph Bailey (congressman)

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Joseph Bailey (March 18, 1810–August 26, 1885) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Bailey born in Pennsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1840. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1843. He moved to Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. He was again a member of the State Senate from 1851 to 1853. He served as State treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860.

Baily was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1872. He died at Bailey Station, Pennsylvania in 1885. Interment in Bloomfield Cemetery in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Benjamin F. Junkin	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district 1861 - 1863	Succeeded by Alexander H. Coffroth
Preceded by James T. Hale	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district 1863 - 1865	Succeeded by Adam J. Glossbrenner