Warren Worth Bailey | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's19th district | |
| In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Jesse Lee Hartman |
| Succeeded by | John Marshall Rose |
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| Born | (1855-01-08)January 8, 1855 New Winchester, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 9, 1928(1928-11-09) (aged 73) |
| Political party | Democratic |
Warren Worth Bailey (January 8, 1855 – November 9, 1928) was aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania and aGeorgist publisher.[1][2] He and other Georgists led in framing the U.S. income tax law of 1916, which exempted most labor income and targeted land rent.[3][4]
Warren W. Bailey was born inNew Winchester, Indiana. He moved toIllinois with his parents in 1863 and settled inEdgar County, Illinois. He attended the country schools, and worked as a telegrapher until 1875.
He joined theKansas News inKansas, Illinois, and learned the printing trade. He was engaged in the publishing business with his brother atCarlisle, Indiana, in 1877. Subsequently, they purchased theVincennes News, which they published until 1887. He moved to Chicago in 1887 and became a member of the staff of theChicago Daily News and later of theEvening Mail. He moved toJohnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and published theJonestown Democrat, devoted to thesingle-tax principle.
Bailey was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1906. He was a delegate at large to the1912 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. He was elected as a Democrat to theSixty-third andSixty-fourth Congresses. He was chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Mileage during the Sixty-third Congress, and of theUnited States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice during the Sixty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 and for election in 1920, 1922, and 1926. He unsuccessfully contested the election ofAnderson Howell Walters to theSixty-ninth Congress. He resumed journalism in Johnstown, where he died in 1928. Interment inGrandview Cemetery, Johnstown.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 19th congressional district 1913–1917 | Succeeded by |
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