Background
Bailey, Joseph was born on March 18, 1810 in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Bailey, Joseph was born on March 18, 1810 in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania.
He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1840. He moved to Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1845. He served as State Treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1854.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860.
Baily was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He died at Bailey Station, Pennsylvania in 1885.
Interment in Bloomfield Cemetery in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1843. He was again a member of the State Senate from 1851 to 1853. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1872.