Josiah William Bailey

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Josiah William Bailey

Josiah William Bailey (born September 14, 1873 in Warrenton , Warren County , North Carolina , † December 15, 1946 in Raleigh , Wake County , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1946 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US Senate .

Career

Josiah Bailey attended public schools in Raleigh, where he had moved with his parents. There he also graduated from the Raleigh Male Academy . He then studied until 1893 at Wake Forest College , now Wake Forest University . From 1893 to 1907 he was the editor of the Bible magazine Biblical Recorder . From 1896 to 1900 he was also a member of the State board of agriculture. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1908, he began to work in his new profession in Raleigh. Between 1913 and 1921 he was head of the federal tax service for North Carolina (United States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina). Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In 1915 he also served on a constitutional revision meeting and in 1930 he became a curator of the University of North Carolina .

In the elections of 1930 Josiah Bailey was elected as his party's candidate to the US Senate, where he succeeded Furnifold McLendel Simmons on March 4, 1931 , whom he had beaten in his party's primary election . After two re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate between March 4, 1931 and his death on December 15, 1946. In the meantime he was chairman of the claims committee and a member of the trade committee. Bailey was relatively conservative. He was a critic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies . Since 1941, the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of World War II .

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