- Warren Worth Bailey
Warren Worth Bailey (
January 8 ,1855 –November 9 ,1928 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Early life
Warren W. Bailey was born in
New Winchester, Indiana . He moved toIllinois with his parents in 1863 and settled inEdgar County, Illinois . He attended the country schools, and worked as a telegrapher until 1875.Newspaper work
He joined the "
Kansas News " inKansas, Illinois , and learned the printing trade. He was engaged in the publishing business with his brother atCarlisle, Indiana , in 1877. Subsequently they purchased the "Vincennes News ", which they published until 1887. He moved toChicago in 1887 and became a member of the staff of the "Chicago Daily News " and later of the "Evening Mail ". He moved toJohnstown, Pennsylvania , in 1893 and published the "Daily Democrat ", devoted to the single-tax principle.Political life
Bailey was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1906. He was a delegate at large to the
1912 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses. He was chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Mileage during the Sixty-third Congress, and of theUnited States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice during the Sixty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 and for election in 1920, 1922, and 1926. He unsuccessfully contested the election ofAnderson H. Walters to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He resumed journalism in Johnstown, where he died in 1928. Interment in Grandview Cemetery.ources
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NAME=Bailey, Warren Worth
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Democratic U.S. Representative
DATE OF BIRTH=January 8 ,1855
PLACE OF BIRTH=New Winchester,Indiana
DATE OF DEATH=November 9 ,1928
PLACE OF DEATH=Johnstown,Pennsylvania
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