Cleveland Monroe Bailey (July 15, 1886 – July 13, 1965) was a

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from

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Biography

Born on a farm near

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in Pleasants County, Bailey attended the public schools, and

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. He graduated from

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, in 1908. High school principal at

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, in 1917 and 1918. He served as district supervisor of schools 1919-1922. Bailey was a councilman of Clarksburg, W.Virginia from 1921 to 1923. He worked as an

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editor in Clarksburg, West Virginia from 1923 to 1933. He served as assistant State auditor 1933-1941, and was the state budget director 1941-1944. Bailey served as delegate to the

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in 1932. In 1955, he allegedly punched

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Congressman

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over a school construction bill rider. Powell's rider would have prevented federal education funds from being allocated to states with segregated schools; Bailey opposed the rider, which was defeated. One Congressman told reporters that Bailey had hit Powell and knocked him to the floor. Bailey denied it, and stated that while Powell and he had argued, no punches were thrown. Bailey was elected as a

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to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress. State tax statistician in 1947 and 1948. Bailey was elected to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1963). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress. Bailey did not sign the 1956

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and voted in favor of

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and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but did not vote on the

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. He was a resident of Clarksburg, West Virginia. He died in

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, July 13, 1965. He was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Clarksburg, West Virginia. He has an elementary school named in his honor in

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