John Bailey (Massachusetts)

John Bailey ( * 1786 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, † June 26, 1835 in Dorchester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1824 and 1831 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Bailey attended until 1807, the Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). Between 1807 and 1814, he worked in this city as a teacher and librarian. He then returned to Massachusetts, where he struck a political career. Between 1814 and 1817 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1817 to 1823 he worked for the State Department in Washington DC In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In 1822 he was first elected to Congress, but were not admitted because of his residence outside his constituency. Then he returned to Canton. After Bailey's rejection in Congress elections were announced for the Tenth District of Massachusetts, where he successfully ran and valid. On 13 December 1824 he officially took his seat in Parliament. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1831 Congress. From 1825 to 1827 Bailey was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President. In 1830 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1831 to 1834 John Bailey sat in the Massachusetts Senate. In 1834, he competed unsuccessfully for the Anti- Masonic Party for the office of the governor of Massachusetts. He died on June 26, 1835 in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston.