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/node/17303.