|
| Affiliation | Democratic |
|
| Name | Warren W. Bailey |
| Address |
Johnstown, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
January 08, 1855
|
| Died | November 09, 1928
(73 years)
|
| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 20, 2014 04:53pm |
| Tags |
|
| Info | BAILEY, Warren Worth, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Winchester, Hendricks County, Ind., January 8, 1855; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Edgar County in 1863; attended the country schools; became a telegrapher, at which he worked until 1875, when he joined the Kansas (Ill.) News and learned the printing trade; engaged in the publishing business with his brother at Carlisle, Ind., in 1877; subsequently they purchased the Vincennes News, which they published until 1887; moved to Chicago in 1887 and became a member of the staff of the Daily News and later of the Evening Mail; moved to Johnstown, Pa., in 1893 and published the Daily Democrat, devoted to the single-tax principle; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for election in 1920, 1922, and 1926 to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and Seventieth Congresses, respectively; unsuccessfully contested the election of Anderson H. Walters to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed journalism in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., where he died November 9, 1928; interment in Grandview Cemetery.
[Link] |
 | BOOKS |
 |
|
| Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
| Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
| Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|
