Jeremiah Bailey

Jeremiah Bailey (born May 1, 1773 in Little Compton , Newport County , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , †  July 6, 1853 in Wiscasset , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeremiah Bailey attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1794 Brown University in Providence . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1798, he began to work in his new profession in Wiscasset, which was then still part of Massachusetts . At that time he was a member of the Federalist Party . In the presidential election in 1808 he was one of the electoral men for this party. Between 1811 and 1814, Bailey served on the Massachusetts General Court. From 1816 to 1834 he was a judge at a probate court.

In the 1830s he joined the opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party . He became a member of the National Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1834 Bailey was elected as their candidate in the third constituency of Maine to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Edward Kavanagh on March 4, 1835 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Jonathan Cilley in the elections of 1836 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1837 .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Bailey returned to his private business. Between 1849 and 1853 he worked for the Customs Service in Wiscasset. He died on July 6, 1853.

Web links

• Jeremiah Bailey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jeremiah Bailey in the database of Find a Grave (English)