Bailey, James Edmund

Life Span
to
    Full name
    James Edmund Bailey
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    University of Nashville, Nashville, TN
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Government
    US Senate
    State legislature
    Military
    Confederate Army

    James Edmund Bailey (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    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.
    "Bailey, James Edmund," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000039.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    McCord, Franklin. "J. E. Bailey: A Gentleman of Clarksville." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (1964): 246-268. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Bailey, James Edmund," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/17303.