John Bailey (politician)

John Bailey (born 1786 in Canton , Norfolk County , Massachusetts , †  June 26, 1835 in Dorchester , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1824 and 1831 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Bailey attended Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ) until 1807 . Between 1807 and 1814 he worked in this city as a teacher and librarian. He then returned to Massachusetts, where he embarked on a political career. Between 1814 and 1817 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts ; from 1817 to 1823 he worked for the State Department in Washington, DC In the 1820s he joined the movement against later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party .

In 1822 he was elected to Congress for the first time , but was not allowed there because of his residence outside of his constituency . Thereupon he returned to Canton. After Bailey's rejection in Congress, by-elections were held for the tenth district of Massachusetts, in which he ran successfully and validly. On December 13, 1824 he officially took his seat in parliament. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1831. From 1825 to 1827, Bailey was chairman of the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee. Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president. In 1830 he renounced another candidacy.

From 1831 to 1834, John Bailey served in the Massachusetts Senate . In 1834 he applied unsuccessfully for the Anti-Masonic Party for the office of governor of Massachusetts. He died on June 26, 1835 in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston .

Web links

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

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