Education
Born in Carroll County, Illinois, Bailey attended the common schools, Mount Carroll High School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana.
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Born in Carroll County, Illinois, Bailey attended the common schools, Mount Carroll High School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana.
Bailey moved to Nemaha County, Kansas, in 1879, and became a successful farmer, rancher, and banker. He and his father founded the town of Baileyville, Kansas in 1880. He was president of the Republican State League in 1893.
Bailey was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress. During his tenure, construction on the state capitol was completed, railroad commissioners and the office of state printer became elective positions, and a law banning gambling devices was sanctioned.
Bailey moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1907 and engaged in the banking business. He was elected a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1914, and then governor of the bank in 1922, and served until his death.
Bailey died in Mission Hills, Kansas, May 19, 1932.
He is interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas.
He served as member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 1888 to 1890. He served as member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture from 1895 to 1899.