Warren Worth Bailey

Warren Worth Bailey ( born January 8, 1855 in New Winchester, Hendricks County, Indiana, † November 9, 1928 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1917 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1863, Warren Bailey moved with his parents in the Edgar County, Illinois, where he attended the public schools. He then worked until 1875 in the telegraph service. He then served an apprenticeship in the printing trade and began a long career in the newspaper business. In the following years he gave out, among other newspapers in Carlisle (Indiana) and Chicago. Since 1893 he lived in Johnstown, where he published the newspaper Daily Democrat. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1906 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives; In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Bailey was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Jesse Lee Hartman on March 4, 1913. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 two legislative sessions. From 1913 to 1915 he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage; 1915-1917 he headed the committee to review the expenditures of the Department of Justice. In 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

In 1916, Bailey was not re-elected. Between 1920 and 1926 he applied to all congress elections unsuccessfully to return to the U.S. House of Representatives. Otherwise, he was still active in the newspaper industry. Warren Bailey died on November 9, 1928 in Johnstown, where he was also buried.