James E. Bailey

James E. Bailey

James Edmund Bailey (* 15. August 1822 in Montgomery County , Tennessee ; † 29. December 1885 in Clarksville , Tennessee) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

After attending private school in Clarksville and the University of Nashville , Bailey studied law and was inducted into the bar in 1843. He then began working as a lawyer in Clarksville. Politically, he was active for the first time in 1853, when he for the Whigs to the Tennessee House of Representatives was elected.

During the American Civil War he served as a colonel in a Tennessee regiment. In 1874 he was appointed a judge at the state arbitration tribunal by Governor John Calvin Brown . James Bailey returned to politics in 1877 when he succeeded the late former US President Andrew Johnson as a member of the US Senate for Tennessee. His term of office lasted from January 19, 1877 to March 3, 1881; he tried in vain for re-election. In the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (now the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ).

After the end of his tenure, he returned to Clarksville, where he again worked as a lawyer and died on December 29, 1885.

Web links

• James E. Bailey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James E. Bailey in the Find a Grave database