Goldsmith Bailey

Goldsmith Fox Bailey ( born July 17, 1823 in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; † May 8, 1862 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1861 and 1862, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Goldsmith Bailey attended the public schools in Fitchburg. Then he went into the newspaper business. After studying law and his 1848 was admitted to the bar he began in Fitchburg to work in this profession. From 1849 to 1854 he was a member of the local school board. From 1851 to 1853 he was postmaster in Fitchburg. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1857 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1858 to 1860 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Bailey was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Eli Thayer on March 4, 1861. He could exercise this office until his death on May 8, 1862. His entire time as a congressman was overshadowed by his tuberculosis, where he then died. Otherwise, this period was marked by the events of the Civil War. When performed after his death election his party colleague Amasa Walker was elected as his successor in Congress.

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