Donald A. Bailey

Donald Allen Bailey ( born July 21, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 1983 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Donald Bailey attended the public schools of his home. In 1963 he graduated from the Greensburg High School. Then he studied until 1967 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In the years 1967 to 1970, he served during the Vietnam War as a first lieutenant in the United States Army. He then worked in various industries, including the steel and construction industries. After studying law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and his 1976, admitted to the bar he began in Greensburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Bailey was the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Herman Dent on January 3, 1979. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1983 two legislative sessions. In 1982, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

In 1986, Donald Bailey competed unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the upcoming elections to the U.S. Senate. Between 1985 and 1989 he held the office of the Auditor General of Pennsylvania. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1998, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania; In 2012, he sought there to the post of Attorney General, but failed in the primaries of his party to Kathleen Kane.