Jeremiah Bailey

Jeremiah Bailey ( born May 1, 1773 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Iceland, † July 6, 1853 in Wiscasset, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeremiah Bailey attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1794, the Brown University in Providence. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1798 admitted to the bar he began in Wiscasset, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts to work in his new profession. At that time he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the presidential election in 1808 he was one of the electors for this party. Between 1811 and 1814 Bailey was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. From 1816 to 1834 he was a judge in a probate court.

In the 1830s he joined the opposition against President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. He was a member of the National Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1834, Bailey has as its candidate for the third constituency of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Kavanagh on March 4, 1835. Since he Democrat Jonathan Cilley defeated in the elections of 1836, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1837.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Bailey again devoted his private transactions. Between 1849 and 1853 he worked for the Customs Administration in Wiscasset. He died on 6 July 1853.