LC control no. | no2008115575 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bailey, James Edmund, 1822-1885 |
Variant(s) | Bailey, Mr. (James Edmund), 1822-1885 |
Birth date | 1822-08-15 |
Death date | 1885-12-29 |
Place of birth | Montgomery County (Tenn.) |
Place of death | Clarksville (Tenn.) |
Affiliation | Tennessee. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate Whig Party (Tenn.) Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
Found in | In the Senate of the United States. March 22, 1880. 1880: p. 1 (Mr. Bailey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Aug. 10, 2008 (Bailey, James Edmund, a Senator from Tenn.; b. Aug. 15, 1822; d. Dec. 29, 1885) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed October 21, 2015 (Bailey, James Edmund, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Montgomery County, Tenn., August 15, 1822; attended the Clarksville Academy and the University of Nashville; studied law; admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Clarksville, Montgomery County; elected as a Whig to the Tennessee house of representatives in 1853; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment; appointed a member of the court of arbitration by the Governor of Tennessee in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Johnson and served from January 19, 1877, to March 3, 1881; an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Clarksville, Tenn., December 29, 1885; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.) |
Associated language | eng |