Guy W. Dailey (July 24, 1827 – January 2, 1899) was a farmer from

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,USA, who was a member of the

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from St. Croix County for a single one-year term.

Background

Dailey was born in

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, on July 24, 1827. He received a common school education and became a farmer. At some point he migrated to

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, and in 1850 moved from there to St. Croix County, settling in the

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of Hudson.

Public office

He held various local offices, including chairman of his town, before being elected in 1876 to the Assembly as a member of the Reform Party (a short-lived

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of Democrats,

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and Liberal

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, and Grangers formed in 1873, which secured the election of a

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and a number of state legislators), with 1,860 votes to 1,744 for the Republican G. M. Street. (The incumbent, fellow Reformer

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, was not a candidate for re-election.) Dailey was assigned to the

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on privileges and

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. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1877, and was succeeded by the Republican James Hill. (The Reform Party was breaking down, and there was no Reform candidate on the ballot.) In 1879, he tried to unseat Hill for his old seat, running as a Democrat (as the Reform Party had completely disintegrated by then), but Hill polled 1,695 votes to Dailey's 1,595.

After the legislature

He continued to farm, and died (described as "one of the well-known popular pioneer farmers of Hudson prairie") at his home on January 2, 1899, after an illness of several weeks.

References

External links

Photograph of his tombstone
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dailey, Guy 1827 births 1899 deaths Farmers from Wisconsin Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly People from Massena, New York Wisconsin Reformers (19th century) People from Hudson, Wisconsin 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature