Alexander H. Bailey

Infobox_Congressman
name=Alexander H. Bailey


state=New York
district=21st
term=November 301867 - March 31871
preceded=Roscoe Conkling
succeeded=Ellis H. Roberts
date of birth=August 141817
place of birth=Minisink, New York
date of death=April 201874
place of death=Rome, New York
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profession=
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party=Republican|

Alexander Hamilton Bailey (August 141817 - April 201874) was a United States Representative from New York.

Bailey was born in Minisink, Orange County, New York on August 141817. He graduated from Princeton College in 1837, where he studied law and later was admitted to the bar and commenced practice, thereafter. examiner in chancery of Greene County, New York 1840 - 1842; justice of the peace of the town of Catskill for four years; member of the State assembly in 1849; judge of Greene County 1851 - 1855; moved to Rome, New York in 1856 and continued the practice of law; served in the State senate 1861 - 1864; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Roscoe Conkling; reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from November 301867 to March 31871; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Forty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected judge of the Oneida County Court in 1871 and served until his death in Rome, New York on April 201874; interment in Rome Cemetery.

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