Joseph Bailey (congressman)
- Joseph Bailey (congressman)
Joseph Bailey (March 18, 1810–August 26, 1885) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Joseph Bailey born in Pennsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1840. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1843. He moved to Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. He was again a member of the State Senate from 1851 to 1853. He served as State treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860.
Baily was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1872. He died at Bailey Station, Pennsylvania in 1885. Interment in Bloomfield Cemetery in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania.
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